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Venersborg, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Battle Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98604. It stands on Little Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yacolt quadrangle. 3,990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Venersborg within Clark County

On record in Venersborg

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Venersborg grew from 3,274 to 3,990 between 2000 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
20003,274
20103,745+471 (+14%)
20203,990+245 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Venersborg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning41
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHANLEY
4 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOT SEAT FIRE
3 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWHEEL FIRE
28 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Venersborg: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CrawfordStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venersborg in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 tornado. 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
March 2013Tornado (EF0)Venersborg$10,000A tornado touched down 2 miles NE of Hockinson Washington. A barn roof was partially torn off. No other damage was noted to nearby trees, structures, or other vegetation around the barn.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Alpine1.0 miles15
Crawford3.8 miles15
Hockinson4.1 miles23
Lucia4.5 miles15
Little Elkhorn4.6 miles23
Dole4.6 miles15
Moulton4.7 miles15
Heisson5.0 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 VenersborgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q597247The 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 1527695. 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.