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Snoqualmie, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98065. It stands on Kimball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snoqualmie quadrangle. 14,121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Snoqualmie within King County

On record in Snoqualmie

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Snoqualmie grew from 10,670 to 14,121 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
201010,670
202014,121+3,451 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Snoqualmie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAGING RIVER
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMCLEOD
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTORMWATER POND
11 August 1998Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE ERNIE
5 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMICKEY MOUSE
4 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Snoqualmie: 13 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Gold. 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
AnnieCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
LetaGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Camp Brown QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mainline 100 PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
ClevelandCopper, GoldUnknown
Legal TenderGold, CopperUnknown
Fall City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raging River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoen North Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snoqualmie in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
April 1997LightningSnoqualmie1 hurtA woman holding an umbrella was struck by lightning.
January 2009FloodSnoqualmie$14,000,000The cities of Snoqualmie, Carnation, Duvall and Fall City flooded, some residents had to be rescued, many homes were flooded. The Issaquah creek flooded some residences and businesses. It also eroded part of the riverbank, which caused a guest house to fall into the creek. About 40 King County roads were closed. In Pacific, about 1000 people evacuated their homes due to flooding from releases from the Mud Mountain dam, 100 of those homes were damaged, some with 3 feet of water in them.
November 2008FloodSnoqualmie$100,000Major flooding on the Snoqualmie River.

Every storm recorded in King 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
Snoqualmie Falls1.1 miles18
Tokul2.3 miles18
Spring Glen2.9 miles18
North Bend3.1 miles14
Ellisville3.6 miles18
Harman Heights4.0 miles14
Ernies Grove4.3 miles16
Fall City4.3 miles18

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 SnoqualmieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000951The 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 1526014. 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.