Tenino, Washington
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Thurston South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98589. It lies near Lemon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bucoda quadrangle. 1,870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.
On record in Tenino
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 5 records
Colvin Houselisted 1988
Tenino Depotlisted 1974
Tenino Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2004
Tenino Stone Company Quarrylisted 1983
Ticknor Schoollisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresTenino grew from 1,695 to 1,870 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 | 1,695 | |
| 2020 | 1,870 | +175 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 21 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.
- 1916 USGS Chehalis quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Tenino quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Tenino quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Tenino quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Bucoda quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Tenino quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Tenino quadrangle1:50000
- 1980 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bucoda quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Tenino between 1992 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 1996 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MCINTOSH SOUTH |
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Tenino: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Clay, Peat. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bucoda Pit | Clay, Peat | Past Producer | ||
| Hercules Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Western Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Crescent Well Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Crowder Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maytown Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sandymere Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Scatter Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tenino in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Tenino | $50,000 | A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaenn Hill | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Offutt Lake | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| McIntosh | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Bucoda | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Sunnydale | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Western Junction | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| Plumb | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Skookumchuck | 5.5 miles | 21 |
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 Tenino | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q604958 | 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 1512718. 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.












