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Rock Island, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the East Wenatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98850. The Survey maps it on the Rock Island quadrangle. 1,279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Rock Island within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Rock Island grew from 788 to 1,279 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
2010788
20201,279+491 (+62%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rock Island between 1992 and 2018, burning about 17,769 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Firearms and explosives use2

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
18 September 2016Firearms and explosives use12 acresSpokane DistrictROCK ISLAND CREEK
9 August 2013Natural5,541 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILEPOST 10
5 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestCAYUSE
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forestnot named
25 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeBADGER ROAD
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSpokane DistrictJUMP OFF
26 June 2017Natural8,729 acresSpokane DistrictSPARTAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Rock Island: 14 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Stemilt School Road ASilicaOccurrence
Alcoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kawecki PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Malaga Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Palmer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rock Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Voltage3.2 miles12
Sunny Hill6.3 miles16
Terrace Park6.3 miles16
Broadway6.6 miles16
East Wenatchee Bench8.0 miles16
East Wenatchee8.3 miles16
Appledale9.1 miles9
Patterson (historical)11.5 miles16

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 Rock IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516023The 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 1525135. 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.