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Rosburg, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grays River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98643. It stands on Nikka Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosburg quadrangle. 340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Rosburg within Wahkiakum County

Population over time

2 figures

Rosburg grew from 317 to 340 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
2010317
2020340+23 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rosburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFALL RUN
29 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSALMON CREEK
27 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEEP RIVER
3 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800
3 August 2002Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 August 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wahkiakum County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rosburg: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grays River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wahkiakum County

Storms near this place

21 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosburg in 21 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 19 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2007FloodRosburg$420,000The Grays River at Rosburg reached major flood levels, and one family was evacuated when flood waters inundated their home. County roads throughout the area received damage, and one family near the river lost an entire herd of cows. NOTE: Damage estimates are for the entire Wahkiakum county.
December 2015FloodRosburg$339,000Heavy rain resulted in flooding of the Grays River near Rosburg.
December 2024FloodRosburg-Along the Grays river an Emergency manager reported numerous road closures due to high water including Covered Bridge Road, Loop Road, and Altoona-Pillar Rock Road as of the morning of 12-18-2024.
December 2024FloodRosburg-River reached minor flood level 28.5 ft 12/26 at 830 am PST, peaked at 28.84 12/26 1145am, and fell below minor flood 12/26 5 pm.
January 2021FloodRosburg-The Grays River near Rosburg rose above 1145PST on the 12th, crested at 15.54 feet, then fell below flood stage at 0215PST on the 14th. Flood stage is 12.0 feet.
September 2017HailRosburg-County official relayed a report of 1.0 inch hail from a resident in Rosburg.
October 2016FloodRosburg-The Grays River crested at 12.08 feet around 10 am, which is 0.08 feet above flood stage. No damage was reported.
January 2015FloodRosburg-Grays River near Rosburg reached flood stage of 12 feet at 1205 AM on January 5th, and crested around 15.4 feet at 815 AM. The river fell below flood stage around 1030 PM.
January 2015Heavy RainRosburg-The Washington Department of Transportation reported Westbound State Route 4 was closed at mile post 21 due to a rock or mud slide resulting from heavy rain. The rain gauge at nearby KM Mountain measured 2 inches of rain in the 6 hour period leading up to the slide.
February 2015FloodRosburg-The Grays River reached the flood stage of 12 feet at 935 AM on February 6th. The river crested at 13.9 feet at 218 PM, and dropped below flood stage at 850 PM.
October 2015FloodRosburg-Heavy rain resulted in Flooding of the Grays River. Grays River reached flood stage at 1230 pm on October 31, and crested at 14.7 feet at 415 pm. The river dropped below flood stage at 1215 AM November 1st. The local Sheriff confirmed that water from the river flooded the nearby Covered Bridge Road.
December 2014FloodRosburg-The Grays River near Rosburg reached the flood stage of 12 feet at 715 AM PST on December 20th. The river crested at 13.6 feet at 12:15 AM PST on December 21 before falling below flood stage at 8:15 AM PST.
March 2014FloodRosburg-Heavy rain resulted in the Grays River near Rosburg to reach flood stage around 7 pm on March 8. The river crested at 15 feet around 1 am on March 9th and fell below flood stage around 6 pm.
March 2014FloodRosburg-The Grays River near Rosburg briefly flooded March 6. The river reached flood stage around 11 am March 6th before cresting at 13.2 feet at 2 pm. The river fell below flood stage around 1 am on March 7th.
April 2014FloodRosburg-The Grays River near Rosburg reached flood stage around 6 am on April 24th, 2014. The river crested at 12.1 ft around 730 AM and fell below flood stage around 9 AM.
February 2014FloodRosburg-The Grays river at Rosburg reached flood stage at 150 AM PST. The river level crested at 13.2 feet at 545 AM PST, and fell below flood stage at 100 PM PST.
September 2013FloodRosburg-Around 4 inches of rain fell over the Willapa Hills, and resulted in the Grays River near Rosburg to exceed flood stage.
January 2011FloodRosburg-Heavy rainfall combined with snowmelt runoff to produce flooding on the Grays River. The Grays River near Rosburg crested at 14.3 feet on January 16th at 13:15 PST.
December 2010FloodRosburg-Heavy rainfall over the area caused the Grays River near Rosburg to overflow its banks.
January 2009FloodRosburg-Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Grays River near Rosburg to overflow its banks.
November 2008FloodRosburg-Heavy rains over the Willapa Hills drained into the Grays River, raising the river out of it's banks. This combined with high tides brought flooding to areas in Wahkiakum county, especially around the town of Rosburg. Flooding in the area closed local roads as well as some evacuations of people from their homes.

Every storm recorded in Wahkiakum 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
Grays River2.3 miles14
Eden2.4 miles16
Oneida2.4 miles16
Deep River2.8 miles16
Svensens Landing3.8 miles16
Altoona4.5 miles16
Carlson Landing4.6 miles16
Dahlia5.0 miles14

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 RosburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6112459The 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 1511272. 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.