Tieton, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98947. It lies near French Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tieton quadrangle. 1,389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,923 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTieton grew from 1,191 to 1,389 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 | 1,191 | |
| 2020 | 1,389 | +198 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1899 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Tieton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Tieton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,824 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MILEPOST 181 |
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 120 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WEBERT |
| 25 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 200 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 August 2013 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BEAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tieton: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Clarke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| S. Naches Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tim Ponds | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tieton in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Flood | Tieton | - | More flooding was reported along Wide Hollow and Cottonwood creeks, as well as Cowiche and Ahtanum creeks, through the city of Yakima, then southeast into the lower Yakima valley. Rapid snow melt occurred in the foothills west of Yakima. Water from roadside ditches spilled over various road in places. ||Along Toppenish and Satus Creeks, in the lower valley, water over roads and field flooding were reported along the main branches of the creeks as well as the numerous tributaries to these creeks. A number of roads remained closed due to high water through the rest of March. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Tieton | - | The Naches River at Naches crested .2 feet above normal. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Tieton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tasker | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Holtzinger | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Cowiche | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Naches | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Weikel | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Eschbach | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Tietonview Grange | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| Gleed | 8.1 miles | 16 |
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 Tieton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506078 | 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 1527199. 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.





