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Sunnyside, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sunnyside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98944. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. 16,375 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside within Yakima County

On record in Sunnyside

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

Sunnyside grew from 15,858 to 16,375 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
201015,858
202016,375+517 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8,177 words

1 chapter about Sunnyside from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties; WitAn Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties; with an Outline of the Early History of the State of Washington (1904)8,177 words

Fires near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside in 1997, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning2

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
19 May 1997Debris and open burning2.5 acresToppenish National Wildlife RefugeTOCHAMP
19 May 1997Debris and open burning2.5 acresToppenish National Wildlife RefugeCHAMBERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Pumice, Diatomite. 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
Snipes MountainPumiceOccurrence
SunnysideDiatomiteOccurrence
Top Snipes MountainSilicaProspect
Emerald PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Patch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Snipes Mountain GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Snipes Mountain GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2005Flash FloodSunnyside$2,000no account filed
February 2003Dust DevilSunnyside$1,000A dust devil led to some damage of a winery. The dust devil lifted a roof off of the walls of the winery, and lifted some of the cinder blocks of the building, sending them to the ground.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-News reported that power lines were down near the local Bi-Mart.
July 2012HailSunnyside-Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall.
July 2012HailSunnyside-no account filed
April 2005Flash FloodSunnyside-no account filed
June 2001HailSunnyside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Midvale2.7 miles12
Lichty3.6 miles12
Emerald4.1 miles12
Outlook4.4 miles12
Givens Corner5.0 miles12
Blacks Corner5.6 miles12
Nass7.4 miles12
Mabton7.5 miles9

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1044814The 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 1531913. 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.