Thorp, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Manastash Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98946. The Survey maps it on the Thorp quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,637 feet above sea level.
On record in Thorp
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 2 records
Thorp Grade Schoollisted 2009
Thorp Milllisted 1977
Population over time
3 figuresThorp fell from 273 to 232 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 | 273 | |
| 2010 | 240 | -33 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 232 | -8 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1897 USGS Mount Stuart quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1902 USGS Mount Stuart quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1902 USGS Mt Stuart quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Thorp quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Thorp quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Thorp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BLOOM PLACE |
| 6 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 167 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HAYWARD FIRING RANGE |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SWITCH BACK |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 16 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ROBINSON CANYON |
| 15 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HAYWARD SHOOTING RANGE |
| 28 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | THORP |
| 14 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 800 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Thorp: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Iron, Chromium, Nickel. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Negro Creek Iron | Iron, Chromium, Nickel | Occurrence | Residual | |
| Unnamed Pit | Gemstone | Past Producer | ||
| Magpie Canyon | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Magpie Canyon Placer | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Magpie Canyon Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Perry Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Perry Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Desmond Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Donahue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horlick | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Ellensburg | 8.2 miles | 18 | |
| Bristol | 8.5 miles | 17 | |
| Lauderdale Junction | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Holmes | 10.6 miles | 18 | |
| Regal | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Teanaway | 12.3 miles | 17 | |
| Thrall | 12.7 miles | 18 |
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 Thorp | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q600850 | 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 1527125. 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.






