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Skokomish, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Skokomish Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98584. It lies in Skokomish Valley. The Survey maps it on the Skokomish Valley quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Skokomish within Mason County

Population over time

3 figures

Skokomish fell from 616 to 615 between 2000 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
2000616
2010617+1 (+0%)
2020615-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Skokomish between 1993 and 2020, burning about 959 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use104 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1995Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Skokomish: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Potlatch3.0 miles10
Union3.3 miles10
Brockdale3.5 miles11
Mohrweis4.4 miles11
Hoodsport5.1 miles10
Tahuya6.0 miles10
Dayton8.2 miles8
Bayshore8.4 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 SkokomishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1186371The 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 1867633. 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.