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Picnic Point, Washington

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edmonds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98026. It lies near Lunds Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Mukilteo quadrangle. 9,768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Picnic Point within Snohomish County

Population over time

2 figures

Picnic Point grew from 8,809 to 9,768 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
20108,809
20209,768+959 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Picnic Point between 1992 and 2009, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1992Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH BEACH
18 July 1995Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 October 1994Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Picnic Point: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
MeadowdaleClayPast Producer
Lynnwood Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
S. Snohomish PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Harbour Pointe1.3 miles25
North Lynnwood1.8 miles25
Serene1.9 miles25
Meadowdale2.0 miles25
Beverly Acres2.7 miles25
Nelsons Corner3.2 miles25
Lake Stickney3.5 miles25
Perrinville3.7 miles25

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 Picnic PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17560547The 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 2413661. 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.