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Port Ludlow, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oak Bay-Port Ludlow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98365. It lies near The Twins. The Survey maps it on the Port Ludlow quadrangle. 2,959 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Port Ludlow within Jefferson County

On record in Port Ludlow

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Port Ludlow grew from 1,968 to 2,959 between 2000 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
20001,968
20102,603+635 (+32%)
20202,959+356 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Port Ludlow between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHWY 19
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2002Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDIRTY SISTER
8 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Port Ludlow: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Mats Mats Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ZellerbachSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Ludlow in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012LightningPort Ludlow$9,000Lightning strike cause minor damage to computers that are used to operate the Hood Canal Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Mats Mats1.2 miles12
Swansonville1.2 miles12
Beaver Valley2.5 miles12
Shine-Gri-La3.9 miles14
Bridgehaven6.3 miles14
Chimacum7.4 miles11
Port Hadlock8.3 miles11
Dabob8.4 miles12

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 Port LudlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514660The 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 1512578. 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.