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Terrace Heights, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98901. The Survey maps it on the Yakima East quadrangle. 9,244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Terrace Heights within Yakima County

Population over time

2 figures

Terrace Heights grew from 6,937 to 9,244 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
20106,937
20209,244+2,307 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Terrace Heights between 1997 and 2020, burning about 421 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
1 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresYakama AgencyAHTANUM RG
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeCOYOTE CREEK
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCK QUARRY
23 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSpokane DistrictHARTFORD
17 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPORTSMANS
3 October 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Terrace Heights: 23 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gold. 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
WenasPumiceOccurrence
Willow Springs No. 3Gold, SilverProspect
KaiserClayPast Producer
Union Gap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
YakimaClayPast Producer
Zirkle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bruenig PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meyers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Birchfield2.0 miles14
Washington Park2.6 miles14
Yakima3.5 miles17
Union Gap3.9 miles14
Pomona Heights4.2 miles15
Moxee City4.7 miles14
East Selah4.8 miles15
South Broadway4.9 miles17

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 Terrace HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508479The 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 1511364. 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.