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.
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
Dungeness River Bridgelisted 1982
McAlmond Houselisted 1976
New Dungeness Light Stationlisted 1993
Sequim Opera Houselisted 1991
US Quarantine Station Surgeon's Residencelisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresSequim 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,606 | |
| 2020 | 8,024 | +1,418 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1938 USGS Dungeness quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Dungeness quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Sequim quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Port Angeles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 1994Regional 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 ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GREYS MARSH |
| 3 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RIVERVIEW |
| 27 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOAD ROAD #2 |
| 14 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOAD ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Hallers Pit | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| One Ok Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Almaden Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Christie Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Eberle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Evans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hastings Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lotzgazelle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Heavy Rain | Sequim | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Heavy Rain | Sequim | $30,000 | Several homes and apartments around Sequim were flooded as a result of local heavy rainfall of 1 to 2 inches in less than 12 hours. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Road | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Bell Hill | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Happy Valley | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Washington Harbor | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Port Williams | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Jamestown | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Carlsborg | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Rena | 4.6 miles | 12 |
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 Sequim | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1514115 | 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 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.




