Pacific Beach, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Ocean Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98571. It stands on Joe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moclips quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 50 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPacific Beach fell from 291 to 280 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 291 | |
| 2020 | 280 | -11 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1938 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Pacific Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Quinault Indian Nations | BOB WAYNE |
| 20 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | VACUUM |
| 14 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | DODGE |
| 3 August 1997 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pacific Beach: 6 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moclips Placer | Chromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Moclips River Placer | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Excelsior | Manganese | Unknown | 1956 | |
| Excelsior Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Paramont | Manganese | Prospect | 1956 | |
| Paramount Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Superior | Manganese | Unknown | 1956 | |
| Superior Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Supreme | Manganese | Unknown | 1956 |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Heights | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sunset Beach | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ocean Grove | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Moclips | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Aloha | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Iron Springs | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Onslow | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle West | 6.4 miles | 13 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Pacific Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475047 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512546. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







