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Sultan, Washington

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Sultan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98294. It stands on Sultan River. The Survey maps it on the Sultan quadrangle. 5,146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Sultan within Snohomish County

On record in Sultan

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sultan grew from 4,651 to 5,146 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
20104,651
20205,146+495 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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.

What the histories say of this town

3,052 words

2 chapters about Sultan from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)309 words
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)2,743 words

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Sultan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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 ceremony25
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks8
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes1
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
29 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKELLOGG LK RD
26 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersREECE RD
26 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCEDAR PONDS
13 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWOODS CREEK
10 September 1996Debris 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 Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Sultan: 16 past producers, 9 occurrences, 7 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Miller & Reynolds ProspectZinc, CopperUnknown
SultanUraniumOccurrence
JohnsonCopperUnknown
Aaa Diorite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Garrison QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
SultanStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sultan RiverStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
S. Sultan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Safeway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Startup PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sultan in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
November 2015FloodSultan$250,000The Skykomish River in Snohomish County near Gold Bar crested at its third highest level on record, over 7 feet above flood stage, the highest level since the record-setting November 2006 flood. Flood waters swamped the town of Sultan, about six miles downstream from Gold Bar, prompting rescue of one woman forced to climb out her home's front window.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Sultan-Tornado stayed on ground for about a minute. No damage.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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
North Sultan1.4 miles15
Startup4.1 miles17
Woods Creek4.5 miles16
Gold Bar6.3 miles17
Wagner6.5 miles16
Monroe Junction7.7 miles19
May Creek7.9 miles17
Monroe8.2 miles19

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 SultanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505643The 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 1526700. 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.