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Riverbend, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98045. It lies near Sallal Prairie. The Survey maps it on the North Bend quadrangle. 2,123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Riverbend within King County

On record in Riverbend

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Riverbend fell from 2,230 to 2,123 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
20002,230
20102,132-98 (-4%)
20202,123-9 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Riverbend between 1998 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks3
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMID FORK
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestMATRESS
27 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE SI
18 September 2008Fireworks3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAILBOX
16 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH FORK
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestTINK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Riverbend: 19 past producers, 6 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Stone, Dimension. 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
AnnieCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Bald HornetIronUnknown
LetaGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Camp Brown QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mainline 100 PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Stoen North Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
ClevelandCopper, GoldUnknown
Della JaneGoldUnknown
Legal TenderGold, CopperUnknown

Every working recorded in King 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
Tanner0.7 miles12
Edgewick1.8 miles12
Riverpoint2.3 miles12
Harman Heights2.4 miles14
North Bend2.8 miles14
Ragnar2.9 miles12
Cedar Falls3.2 miles14
Ellisville3.9 miles18

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 RiverbendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502634The 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 1852956. 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.