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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.

Shelton within Mason County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Shelton 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.

YearPeople Change
20109,834
202010,371+537 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

221 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined101
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony17
Fireworks13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersAGATE
7 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSYLVAN HEIGHTS
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILEPOST 345
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCHURCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bay Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Shop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evergreen MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Isabella PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lost Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mason PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2009FloodShelton$900,000There 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.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Carmill Station1.1 miles10
Oakland2.0 miles10
Bayshore3.6 miles10
Agate4.7 miles10
Brockdale5.6 miles11
Kamilche5.8 miles10
Dayton6.6 miles8
New Kamilche7.2 miles10

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 SheltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983986The 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.