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Porter, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Malone-Porter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98541. It stands on Porter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malone quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 100 feet above sea level.

Porter within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

2 figures

Porter fell from 207 to 204 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
2010207
2020204-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Porter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning14
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNOBODYS HOME
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOAKVILLE
22 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH BANK
12 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALONE
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMOX CHEHALIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Porter: 10 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landberg 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

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Malone1.7 miles15
Lankner1.8 miles15
Rony2.2 miles15
Greenwood4.3 miles15
Saginaw4.6 miles15
Cedarville5.8 miles15
South Elma6.2 miles15
Sine6.8 miles9

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 PorterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5664483The 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 1507585. 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.