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Puyallup, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Puyallup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98372. The Survey maps it on the Puyallup quadrangle. 42,973 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Puyallup within Pierce County

On record in Puyallup

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Puyallup grew from 37,022 to 42,973 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
201037,022
202042,973+5,951 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Puyallup between 1992 and 2020, burning about 519 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined494 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeSUMNER GRADE
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEHLI HILL
28 August 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 August 1996Smoking2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSNOW SHOE
20 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresNisqually National Wildlife Refuge ComplexMCCALLISTER CREEK
4 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMCCUTCHEON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Puyallup: 20 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
McmillanCalciumPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Aztec PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carl G. Olson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Firwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lidford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lundblad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milcane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norm's Auto Wrecking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puyallup in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
December 2015FloodNorth Puyallup$25,000Trailers in an RV park were flooded.
September 2013LightningPuyallup$5,000Lightning struck a home and damaged several electrical items inside.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Meeker0.8 miles26
North Puyallup1.6 miles26
Sumner3.0 miles28
South Hill3.3 miles26
Alderton3.5 miles28
Summit3.8 miles26
Waller4.2 miles26
McMillin4.3 miles28

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 PuyallupAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q179336The 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 1533368. 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.