Smokey Point, Washington
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98223. The Survey maps it on the Arlington West quadrangle. 1,556 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSmokey Point fell from 2,620 to 1,556 between 1990 and 2000. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 2,620 | |
| 2000 | 1,556 | -1,064 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Arlington West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Smokey Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Puget Sound Agency | FREEWAY |
| 5 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PAINTBALL |
| 5 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | POPEYES CORNER |
| 4 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BLACKBERRY FARM |
| 29 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Puget Sound Agency | DIRT PIT |
| 27 August 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CENTENNIAL BRIDGE |
| 17 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
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 Smokey Point: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlanco Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Arlington Industrial Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Arlington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Arlington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pilchuck Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stillaguamish Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Totem Park | 0.5 miles | 19 | |
| Lakewood | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| English | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Stimson Crossing | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Edgecomb | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Sisco | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Kruse Junction | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Kruse | 3.6 miles | 17 |
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 Smokey Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1511504 | 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 1512665. 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.







