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Stevenson, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98648. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bonneville Dam quadrangle. 1,491 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Stevenson within Skamania County

Population over time

3 figures

Stevenson grew from 1,200 to 1,491 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
20001,200
20101,465+265 (+22%)
20201,491+26 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Stevenson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74,501 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 10 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 ceremony51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use23
Fireworks14
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2

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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFORT RAINS
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic Area2020
7 September 1998Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEL REY
6 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaOLD WYETH
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH RANGE
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Stevenson: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Aluminum. 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
StevensonAluminumOccurrence
StevensonPerliteOccurrence
Moffett's Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Rock Creke Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
St. Martin Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hamilton Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Island Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peterson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Skamania 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
Fort Rains3.5 miles14
Carson4.0 miles13
Moffetts Hot Springs4.8 miles14
Saint Martins Hot Springs5.1 miles13
Home Valley5.7 miles13
North Bonneville6.1 miles14
Stabler7.9 miles15
Skamania9.9 miles16

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 StevensonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q514457The 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 1509682. 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.