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South Hill, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Puyallup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98374. The Survey maps it on the Puyallup quadrangle. 64,708 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

South Hill within Pierce County

Population over time

5 figures

South Hill grew from 7,035 to 64,708 between 1980 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
19807,035
199012,693+5,658 (+80%)
200031,623+18,930 (+149%)
201052,431+20,808 (+66%)
202064,708+12,277 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of South Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersORTING
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCASCADIA
29 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSLIDE RIVER
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCALISTOGA
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEHLI HILL
3 August 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of South Hill: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
McmillanCalciumPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Aztec PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lundblad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norm's Auto Wrecking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Puyallup PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spinning PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sumner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thun Field Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
McMillin1.8 miles28
Alderton2.9 miles28
Meeker3.1 miles26
Puyallup3.3 miles26
Sumner4.6 miles28
North Puyallup4.6 miles26
Orting4.6 miles29
Summit4.8 miles26

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1503540The 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 1867636. 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.