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Sequim, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sequim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98382. It stands on Sequim Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Sequim quadrangle. 8,024 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Sequim within Clallam County

On record in Sequim

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sequim grew from 6,606 to 8,024 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
20106,606
20208,024+1,418 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Sequim between 1994 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREYS MARSH
3 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERVIEW
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOAD ROAD #2
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOAD ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Sequim: 15 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Manganese. 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
Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200Sand and Gravel, Construction, ManganesePast Producer
Hallers PitStone, DimensionProducer
One Ok QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Almaden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Christie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eberle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hastings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lotzgazelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sequim in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 2 heavy rain. 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
February 1999Heavy RainSequim$100,000no account filed
March 2015Heavy RainSequim$30,000Several homes and apartments around Sequim were flooded as a result of local heavy rainfall of 1 to 2 inches in less than 12 hours.

Every storm recorded in Clallam 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
River Road1.6 miles12
Bell Hill1.8 miles13
Happy Valley2.1 miles13
Washington Harbor3.0 miles13
Port Williams3.2 miles13
Jamestown3.4 miles8
Carlsborg3.8 miles12
Rena4.6 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 SequimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514115The 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 1531505. 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.