Shelton, Washington
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Shelton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98584. It stands on Shelton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shelton quadrangle. 10,371 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
On record in Shelton
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 7 records
Goldsborough Creek Bridgelisted 1982
High Steel Bridgelisted 1982
Malaney-O'Neill Houselisted 2013
Mason County Courthouselisted 2013
Shelton Public Library and Town Halllisted 1983
Simpson Logging Company Locomotive No. 7 and Peninsular Railway Caboose No. 700listed 1984
Vance Creek Bridgelisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresShelton grew from 9,834 to 10,371 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 | 9,834 | |
| 2020 | 10,371 | +537 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1939 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
221 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Shelton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 101 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Fireworks | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | AGATE |
| 7 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SYLVAN HEIGHTS |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MILEPOST 345 |
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CHURCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Shelton: 14 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Shore Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Central Shop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Evergreen Materials | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Isabella Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lost Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mason Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelton in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flood. 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 2009 | Flood | Shelton | $900,000 | There was flooding along the Skokomish River. Several homes in Shelton flooded, most from local creeks. Several roads in the area were also flooded, including SR 106 and 108. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmill Station | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Oakland | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bayshore | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Agate | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Brockdale | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Kamilche | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Dayton | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| New Kamilche | 7.2 miles | 10 |
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 Shelton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q983986 | 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 1528429. 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.





