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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.

Tenino within Thurston County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tenino 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,695
20201,870+175 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 September 1996Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMCINTOSH SOUTH
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Army QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bucoda PitClay, PeatPast Producer
Hercules QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Western QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Crescent Well PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crowder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maytown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sandymere PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scatter Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F1)Tenino$50,000A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Chaenn Hill1.7 miles21
Offutt Lake4.0 miles21
McIntosh4.0 miles21
Bucoda4.1 miles21
Sunnydale4.5 miles20
Western Junction4.8 miles21
Plumb4.9 miles21
Skookumchuck5.5 miles21

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 TeninoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q604958The 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.