Port Townsend, Washington
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Discovery Bay-Port Townsend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98368. It lies near Morgan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Port Townsend South quadrangle. 10,148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.
On record in Port Townsend
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 12 of 45 shown
Fort Worden Building 305 (Historic Quartermasters Office & Storehouse)National Historic Landmark
Rose TheatreNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
Henry Bash Houselisted 1985
City Halllisted 1971
Coleman-Furlong Houselisted 1985
Joel Edwards Houselisted 1985
F/V WESTERN FLYER (purse seiner)listed 2017
Thomas Fitzgerald Houselisted 1985
Fort Flaglerlisted 1976
Capt. Enoch S. Fowler Houselisted 1970
Gagen-Sherlock Houselisted 1982
J. W. Griffiths Houselisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresPort Townsend grew from 9,113 to 10,148 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 | 9,113 | |
| 2020 | 10,148 | +1,035 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1939 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Port Townsend South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Port Townsend between 1992 and 2009, burning about 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MALAMUTE LANE |
| 13 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 12 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Port Townsend: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape George Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Irondale Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lindseys New Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Townsend in 1 storm report in 1999: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Lightning | Port Townsend | $15,500 | A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Cove | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Fort Flagler | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Irondale | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Four Corners | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Marrowstone | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Nordland | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Port Hadlock | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Adelma Beach | 5.9 miles | 11 |
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 Townsend | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1001828 | 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 1524589. 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.




