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Ryderwood, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Castle Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98581. It stands on Becker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wildwood quadrangle. 383 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Ryderwood within Cowlitz County

Population over time

2 figures

Ryderwood fell from 395 to 383 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
2010395
2020383-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Ryderwood between 1993 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1993Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIG HIDDEN STUMP
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDIME
22 July 2000Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBROKEN TRACK FIRE
11 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOSSY LIZ FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz 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 Ryderwood: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Harbor Rock-Rip 9405Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Campbell RoadSilicaOccurrence
Stillwater CreekSilicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cowlitz County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryderwood in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2021Thunderstorm WindRyderwood-Abernathy RAWS (ABNW1) reported a maximum wind of 36 mph gusting to 78 mph.

Every storm recorded in Cowlitz 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
Olequa5.5 miles11
Castle Rock10.0 miles11
Eufaula Heights11.1 miles15
Sandy Bend11.6 miles11
Coal Creek12.3 miles15
Eufaula12.5 miles15
Bunker Hill13.0 miles15
Pleasant Hill13.1 miles11

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 RyderwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18364089The 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 1512630. 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.