South Cle Elum, Washington
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It stands on Crystal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cle Elum quadrangle. 559 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,923 feet above sea level.
On record in South Cle Elum
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 2 records
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yardlisted 2003
Milwaukee Road Bunkhouselisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Cle Elum grew from 532 to 559 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 532 | |
| 2020 | 559 | +27 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1897 USGS Mount Stuart quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1902 USGS Mount Stuart quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1902 USGS Mt Stuart quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cle Elum quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Cle Elum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2003 USGS Cle Elum quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
135 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of South Cle Elum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 11 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 ceremony | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BUFFALO SPRINGS |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WINCHESTER |
| 8 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SHARON OSBORN |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LANIGAN POWERLINE |
| 7 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BULL FROG WOODCHIP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 26 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of South Cle Elum: 14 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boose | Silica | Prospect | ||
| Cle Elum Placer | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Cle Elum Sand and Gravel | Clay | Producer | ||
| Durrwachter | Iron, Garnet | Prospect | ||
| Denney | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Denny Assigned To Pittsburg | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Red Rock | Nickel, Chromium | Prospect | ||
| Red Rock Prospect | Nickel, Chromium | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Taneum Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Jonesville No. 2 Mine Dump | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
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.
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 South Cle Elum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506509 | 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 1526142. 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.







