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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.

Port Townsend within Jefferson County

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

Every listing in Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Port 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.

YearPeople Change
20109,113
202010,148+1,035 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
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
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALAMUTE LANE
13 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cape George PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irondale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lindseys New PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999LightningPort Townsend$15,500A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage.

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
Glen Cove3.0 miles11
Fort Flagler3.7 miles12
Irondale5.2 miles11
Four Corners5.6 miles11
Marrowstone5.8 miles12
Nordland5.9 miles12
Port Hadlock5.9 miles11
Adelma Beach5.9 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 Port TownsendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1001828The 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.