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Warm Beach, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Stanwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98292. The Survey maps it on the Stanwood quadrangle. 2,990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Warm Beach within Snohomish County

Population over time

3 figures

Warm Beach grew from 2,040 to 2,990 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
20002,040
20102,437+397 (+19%)
20202,990+553 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Warm Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
9 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKAYAK POINT
2 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAPPY VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Warm Beach: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
FlorenceDiatomiteOccurrence
Lake Howard 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 Snohomish 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
McKees Beach3.0 miles17
Florence3.9 miles17
Sunny Shores4.4 miles16
Silvana Terraces4.8 miles17
Stanwood4.9 miles17
Tulare Beach4.9 miles16
Lake Goodwin5.0 miles17
East Stanwood5.1 miles17

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 Warm BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505252The 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 1512777. 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.