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River Road, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sequim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98382. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carlsborg quadrangle. 495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

River Road within Clallam County

Population over time

3 figures

River Road grew from 450 to 495 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
2000450
2010454+4 (+1%)
2020495+41 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of River Road between 1994 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Fireworks4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREYS MARSH
3 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERVIEW
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOAD ROAD #2
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of River Road: 17 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Manganese. 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
Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200Sand and Gravel, Construction, ManganesePast Producer
Hallers PitStone, DimensionProducer
One Ok QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Almaden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blake Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Christie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eberle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hastings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Sequim1.6 miles13
Happy Valley2.2 miles13
Bell Hill2.5 miles13
Carlsborg2.8 miles12
Rena3.4 miles12
Washington Harbor4.5 miles13
Jamestown4.7 miles8
Port Williams4.8 miles13

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 River RoadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1503273The 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 1852957. 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.