BlockPacific, Washington
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Federal Way-Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98047. The Survey maps it on the Poverty Bay quadrangle. 7,235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPacific grew from 6,606 to 7,235 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 | 6,606 | |
| 2020 | 7,235 | +629 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 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.
- 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1949 USGS Poverty Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Poverty Bay quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Poverty Bay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pacific in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | G.R.C.C. |
| 16 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | HANFORD TOWN SITE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Pacific: 21 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Concrete | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Auburn Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bremmeyer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Carl G. Olson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| County Line Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Firwood Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Heidinger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Main Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacific in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2014 | Debris Flow | Pacific | $200,000 | An unoccupied Pacific home was destroyed after it was hit by a slide on West Valley Highway. The force of the slide knocked down several walls of the house and knocked the home off its foundation. A road was destroyed in Index (Sunset Falls). Other slide locations across roadways were in the City of Snoqualmie, Thurston County, West Valley Highway in Auburn, Marine View Drive from East 11th Street to Slayden Road in Tacoma, Vashon Islands Dockton Road, on the narrow strip of land connecting Vashon and Maury islands, mudslide struck a car east of Sedro Woolley when mud and debris came down on the South Skagit Highway, Maxwell Road in Maple Valley slid out, Mulkilteo (2 slides), westbound lanes of Highway 20 east of Concrete, Mukilteo again, Des Moines rolled down into a parking lot at an apartment complex along 277th block 6th Place South; hit cars, southbound US 101 near Hoodsport. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algona | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Stuck | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Jovita | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Auburn | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Lakeland | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Kitts Corner | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Christopher | 4.9 miles | 23 | |
| Federal Way | 5.2 miles | 24 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506861 | 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 1512545. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.