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.
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
US Post Office-Sunnyside Mainlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresSunnyside 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,858 | |
| 2020 | 16,375 | +517 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1910 USGS Zillah quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Granger quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Toppenish quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What the histories say of this town
8,177 words1 chapter about Sunnyside from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties; Wit | An 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 1997Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge | TOCHAMP |
| 19 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge | CHAMBERS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snipes Mountain | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Sunnyside | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Top Snipes Mountain | Silica | Prospect | ||
| Emerald Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Patch Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sheller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Snipes Mountain Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Snipes Mountain Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Sunnyside | $2,000 | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Dust Devil | Sunnyside | $1,000 | A 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyside | - | News reported that power lines were down near the local Bi-Mart. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Flash Flood | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midvale | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lichty | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Emerald | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Outlook | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Givens Corner | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Blacks Corner | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Nass | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Mabton | 7.5 miles | 9 |
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 Sunnyside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1044814 | 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 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.






