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Silverdale, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bremerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98383. It lies near Clear Creek Valley. The Survey maps it on the Poulsbo quadrangle. 20,733 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Silverdale within Kitsap County

On record in Silverdale

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 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Silverdale grew from 7,660 to 20,733 between 1990 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
19907,660
200015,816+8,156 (+106%)
201019,204+3,388 (+21%)
202020,733+1,529 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Silverdale between 1992 and 1994, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Silverdale: 21 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Kitsap QuarryStoneProducer
Reynolds QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ace Paving Dickey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Albright PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Barker Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blossom Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bowling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chico Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverdale in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSilverdale1 hurt, $30,000In Silverdale, a tree crashed onto a home injuring the occupant. There were power outages on other parts of the Kitsap peninsula.
August 1999LightningSilverdale$150,000Lightning started a fire which damaged a home.
February 1999Heavy RainSilverdale$35,000no account filed
October 1996Funnel CloudSilverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kitsap 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
Huckle Ridge1.7 miles13
Fairview2.1 miles14
Eldorado Hills2.3 miles14
Chico2.4 miles14
Johansons Corner2.5 miles13
Parkwood East2.6 miles13
Central Valley2.7 miles13
Erlands Point3.1 miles14

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 SilverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515408The 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 1512662. 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.