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Twisp, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Methow Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98856. It stands on Twisp River. The Survey maps it on the Twisp East quadrangle. 992 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,637 feet above sea level.

Twisp within Okanogan County

Population over time

2 figures

Twisp grew from 919 to 992 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
2010919
2020992+73 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Twisp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,681 acres in total. 45 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
Natural45
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLOOKOUT
7 September 2018Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSECOND MILE
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBOX
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOLVERT
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersALDER CREEK
25 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestPOWERLINE
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestALDER
19 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOOKOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Twisp: 13 unknowns, 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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
AlderSilver, Copper, Zinc, GoldOccurrenceChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Sphalerite
Alder MineGold, Copper, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1896, 1939
Alder MineGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1896, 1939
HeathLeadUnknown
PeoriaGold, Copper, Zinc, SilverUnknown
RattlesnakeGold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, CopperUnknown
SpokaneGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
SpokaneGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrence1941
SpokaneGold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, CopperUnknown
Twin Lakes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twisp in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTwisp$20,000A tree was toppled onto a house in Twisp by a thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2009LightningTwisp$2,000no account filed
May 2018FloodTwisp$260The USGS River Gage on the Methow River at Pateros recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 10.0 feet at 1:00 PM PSt on May 9th. The river crested at 10.7 feet at 7:15 AM on May 10th then receded below the Flood Stage at 7:30 PM on May 10th. The river rose again on May 16th and briefly touched the Flood Stage at 10.0 feet at 11:45 AM on May 16th before receding again.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTwisp-A thunderstorm wind gust toppled a tree onto power lines near Twisp. A power outage resulted from this damage.
July 2006Flash FloodTwisp-no account filed
July 2006HailTwisp-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindTwisp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okanogan 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
Carlton8.0 miles13
Winthrop8.6 miles15
Mowich Illahee16.5 miles13
Methow17.3 miles13
Paradise Hill17.6 miles13
Olema17.7 miles12
Mazama21.7 miles7
Loop Loop (historical)22.5 miles11

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 TwispAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506800The 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 1527565. 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.