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University Place, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tacoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98466. It lies near Days Island. The Survey maps it on the Steilacoom quadrangle. 34,866 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

University Place within Pierce County

On record in University Place

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

University Place grew from 31,144 to 34,866 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
201031,144
202034,866+3,722 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of University Place between 2002 and 2008, burning under an acre 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
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
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIMBERLAKE
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPILLMAN
26 May 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of University Place: 12 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic. 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
(Facility) Asarco RefineryCopper, Nickel, ArsenicPlant
Meadow Park Pit & MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holroyd Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakewood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sprague & S. Tacoma Way PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Titlow0.8 miles16
Sunset Beach1.7 miles16
Fircrest1.8 miles16
Peach Acres2.4 miles16
Hope2.8 miles16
Pioneer2.8 miles16
Wollochet2.9 miles15
Magnolia Heights3.1 miles15

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 University PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514808The 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 1512752. 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.