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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.

Thorp within Kittitas County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Thorp 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.

YearPeople Change
2000273
2010240-33 (-12%)
2020232-8 (-3%)

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

30 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLOOM PLACE
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined167 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAYWARD FIRING RANGE
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremony5.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSWITCH BACK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROBINSON CANYON
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAYWARD SHOOTING RANGE
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTHORP
14 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Adams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Negro Creek IronIron, Chromium, NickelOccurrenceResidual
Unnamed PitGemstonePast Producer
Magpie CanyonGoldProspect
Magpie Canyon PlacerGoldProspect
Magpie Canyon ProspectGoldOccurrence
Perry PlacerGoldPast Producer
Perry PlacerGoldPast Producer
Desmond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donahue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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
Horlick7.4 miles17
Ellensburg8.2 miles18
Bristol8.5 miles17
Lauderdale Junction9.5 miles15
Holmes10.6 miles18
Regal12.1 miles15
Teanaway12.3 miles17
Thrall12.7 miles18

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 ThorpAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q600850The 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.