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Roslyn, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98941. It lies near Cedar Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Cle Elum quadrangle. 950 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,247 feet above sea level.

Roslyn within Kittitas County

On record in Roslyn

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Roslyn grew from 893 to 950 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
2010893
2020950+57 (+6%)

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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Roslyn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 were 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 ceremony41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning19
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5
Fireworks4
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINCHESTER
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1993Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBULL FROG WOODCHIP
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINE TRAIL
22 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUMMIT VIEW ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas 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 Roslyn: 17 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Iron. 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
Cle Elum PlacerGoldProspect
Cle Elum Sand and GravelClayProducer
CumbyGemstonePast Producer
DurrwachterIron, GarnetProspect
Jonesville No. 2 Mine DumpStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Roslyn-Cascade Mine DumpStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alpine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roslyn in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 2 wildfire, 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
August 2003WildfireRoslyn-The Square Lake Fire was a lightning sparked fire which burned 1,097 acres. The fire was contained on September 30th.
September 2003WildfireRoslyn-The Square Lake Fire began on August 25th, and burned a total of 1,097 acres. The fire was a lightning sparked fire, and became completely contained on September 30th.
July 2006HailRoslyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Ronald1.8 miles16
Cle Elum3.5 miles16
South Cle Elum3.5 miles16
Nelson3.8 miles16
Lakedale4.0 miles17
Driftwood Acres5.5 miles17
Lavender6.4 miles16
Pine Glen7.3 miles15

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 RoslynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510360The 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 1525216. 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.