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.
Population over time
2 figuresRyderwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 395 | |
| 2020 | 383 | -12 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Ryderwood quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Astoria quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Wildwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BIG HIDDEN STUMP |
| 12 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 July 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DIME |
| 22 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BROKEN TRACK FIRE |
| 11 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BOSSY LIZ FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Rock-Rip 9405 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Campbell Road | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Stillwater Creek | Silica | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryderwood | - | Abernathy RAWS (ABNW1) reported a maximum wind of 36 mph gusting to 78 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olequa | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Castle Rock | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Eufaula Heights | 11.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sandy Bend | 11.6 miles | 11 | |
| Coal Creek | 12.3 miles | 15 | |
| Eufaula | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bunker Hill | 13.0 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 13.1 miles | 11 |
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 Ryderwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18364089 | The 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.






