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Vaughn, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Key Peninsula-Anderson Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98329. It stands on Vaughn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vaughn quadrangle. 565 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Vaughn within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Vaughn grew from 544 to 565 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
2010544
2020565+21 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Vaughn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRAPEVIEW RD
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTOR
13 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCARNEY LAKE
11 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVAUGHN CREEK
1 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAKELAND
15 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTOR JUNCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Vaughn: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
144th St. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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
Key Center1.0 miles14
Glencove1.4 miles14
Sunshine Beach1.8 miles14
Sunrise Beach3.7 miles14
Minter4.2 miles14
Home4.8 miles13
Forest Beach5.3 miles14
Herron5.5 miles13

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 VaughnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6159831The 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 1512759. 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.