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Sedro-Woolley, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sedro-Woolley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98284. It lies near Skagit Valley. The Survey maps it on the Sedro-Woolley North quadrangle. 12,421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Sedro-Woolley within Skagit County

On record in Sedro-Woolley

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Sedro-Woolley grew from 10,540 to 12,421 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
201010,540
202012,421+1,881 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Sedro-Woolley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDUKES HILL
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePuget Sound AgencySKAGHOUSE
12 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJANICKI ROAD GYPSY
1 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 1993Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 1998Debris 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 Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Sedro-Woolley: 18 unknowns, 10 producers, 6 past producers, 4 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel, Stone, Dimension. 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
BurlingtonAsbestosPast Producer
BurlingtonStoneOccurrence
Bar Sand and Gravel, Inc.Stone, DimensionUnknown
Clear LakeNickelOccurrence
Day Creek Roadcut ExposureNickelOccurrencePyrite
Dukes Hill QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Franek QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
ScottNickelOccurrence
Dukes Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ianicki QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedro-Woolley in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 lightning. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
June 2007LightningSedro Woolley5 hurtSkagit county sheriff reported that 5 people were injured and taken to the hospital after lightning struck a tree near Sedro Woolley and the current hit the five sheltering under a gazebo near to the tree.

Every storm recorded in Skagit 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
Sterling2.5 miles21
Clear Lake2.7 miles16
Cokedale3.6 miles12
Hoogdal3.9 miles14
Baker Heights4.8 miles21
Burlington5.1 miles21
Chuckanut Junction5.4 miles21
Thornwood5.5 miles12

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 Sedro-WoolleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502468The 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 1512653. 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.