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Pe Ell, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Winlock-Pe Ell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98572. It stands on Stowe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pe Ell quadrangle. 642 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Pe Ell within Lewis County

On record in Pe Ell

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pe Ell grew from 632 to 642 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
2010632
2020642+10 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Pe Ell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST WYNOCHEE
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLUSCK
8 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBEAM
7 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACKBERRY FIRE
6 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJONES FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pe Ell: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Road Pit No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
35 Road Pit Weyerhaeuser CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Road Pit No. 35Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sliwa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thrash Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
McCormick1.9 miles14
Reynolds (historical)2.8 miles14
Walville3.3 miles14
Murnen4.3 miles14
Doty4.5 miles14
Dryad5.2 miles14
Mays (historical)7.8 miles15
Ceres8.1 miles15

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 Pe EllAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505719The 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 1507338. 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.