Taholah, Washington
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Quinault Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98587. It stands on Quinault River. The Survey maps it on the Taholah quadrangle. 776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresTaholah fell from 824 to 776 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 824 | |
| 2010 | 840 | +16 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 776 | -64 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Taholah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Taholah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
51 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Taholah between 1992 and 2015, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | 10X2 FIRE |
| 19 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | ROCK FIRE |
| 28 August 2014 | Fireworks | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | RIVER MOUTH |
| 22 August 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | AALIS FIRE |
| 1 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | CAPOEMAN |
| 5 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | SWING SET |
| 5 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Quinault Indian Nations | BEACH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moclips | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sunset Beach | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Highland Heights | 10.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pacific Beach | 10.7 miles | 13 | |
| Aloha | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ocean Grove | 12.5 miles | 13 | |
| Iron Springs | 14.1 miles | 13 | |
| Onslow | 15.5 miles | 13 |
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 Taholah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1505349 | 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 1531522. 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.






