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Pasco, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99301. The Survey maps it on the Pasco quadrangle. 77,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

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Pasco within Franklin County

On record in Pasco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pasco grew from 59,781 to 77,108 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.

YearPeople Change
201059,781
202077,108+17,327 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pasco between 2000 and 2019, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks2
Firearms and explosives use2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife Refuge2ND ST.
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugeBLACKBERRY
6 July 2019Firearms and explosives use104 acresSpokane DistrictP K COMMAND
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugeHWY124
4 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMid Columbia National Wildlife Refuge ComplexASH STREET
4 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugeSUNSET #1
4 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugePOPLAR
31 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMid Columbia National Wildlife Refuge ComplexLIFESTYLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Pasco: 15 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D.O.E. Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cherry Lane QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennewick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Matheson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Matheson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pasco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit No. 11147Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Putnam PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith Canyon Hazardous Waste SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pasco in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 dust devil, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020LightningPasco4 hurt, $12,000Cattle company near Pasco lost 6 registered Charolais cattle during a lightning storm.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPasco$770,000Strong wind gusts from a thunderstorm flipped two small airplanes at the Tri-Cities airport in Pasco. Five feeding bunks at DeVries Dairy were also destroyed. The winds knocked out power to thousands of residents in the county, and toppled many trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPasco$5,000Trees down and shingles taken from roofs.
June 2008LightningPasco$5,000Lightning struck radio tower and knocked station off air.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPasco-Measured at mesonet station HPASC.
July 2002HailPasco-Hail from this storm severely damaged thousands of acres of crops in Pasco. Some of the hardest hit crops were tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, green beans, and peppers.
May 1999Dust DevilPasco-A dust devil tore shingles and tarpaper off the roof of the Physician's Medical Center in Pasco.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPasco-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPasco-no account filed
October 2004Thunderstorm WindPasco-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPasco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Pasco West2.2 miles12
Riverview3.8 miles12
Ainsworth Junction3.9 miles12
West Pasco4.4 miles12
Glade6.7 miles11
Martindale7.3 miles12
Sagemoor11.2 miles10
Levey13.8 miles11

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 PascoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q844016The 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 1513388. 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.