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Wapato, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Toppenish-Wapato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98951. The Survey maps it on the Wapato quadrangle. 4,607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Wapato within Yakima County

On record in Wapato

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

2 figures

Wapato fell from 4,997 to 4,607 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
20104,997
20204,607-390 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

522 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 522 fires within 5 miles of Wapato between 1995 and 2019, burning about 8,292 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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
Fireworks169
Debris and open burning143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined106
Arson/incendiarism59
Equipment and vehicle use20
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives 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 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama AgencyDONALD WAPATO SWIMMING HOLE
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresYakama Agency942 WINAWAY
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency940 WINAWAY
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency3214 MCDONALD
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency361 BUTLER RD.
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresYakama AgencyEAST BRANCH
4 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency170 HORSCHELL RD.
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama AgencyDONALD RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wapato: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Kern Pit C-49Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parker HeightsClayPast Producer
Ashue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Calvert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dunn's Ranch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed 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 Yakima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wapato in 2 storm reports in 2009: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
January 2009FloodWapato$1,570,000no account filed
April 2009HailWapato-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Donald2.4 miles14
Sawyer3.2 miles13
Yethonat3.2 miles14
Ashue3.6 miles14
Flint4.0 miles13
Parker4.4 miles14
Venner5.2 miles13
Wesley Junction5.3 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 WapatoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507767The 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 1512774. 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.