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Vader, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Toledo-Vader census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98593. It stands on McMurphy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winlock quadrangle. 629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Vader within Lewis County

On record in Vader

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

4 figures

Vader grew from 414 to 629 between 1990 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
1990414
2000590+176 (+43%)
2010621+31 (+5%)
2020629+8 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Vader between 1993 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNIKULA
30 September 1993Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOWLITZ BLACKBERRY
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIG HIDDEN STUMP
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Vader: 11 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BuswellFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Harbor Rock-Rip 9405Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Campbell RoadSilicaOccurrence
Cowlitz RiverClayOccurrence
Stillwater CreekSilicaOccurrence
VaderClayPast Producer
Cowlitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Janisch Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mulford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Winlock6.2 miles11
Toledo6.5 miles11
Cowlitz7.3 miles11
Wildwood7.9 miles13
Saint Urban8.9 miles15
Evaline9.5 miles15
Napavine12.2 miles15
Marys Corner12.4 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 VaderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506363The 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 1512755. 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.