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Wauna, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Gig Harbor Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98329. It stands on Goodnough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burley quadrangle. 4,421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Wauna within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Wauna grew from 4,186 to 4,421 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
20104,186
20204,421+235 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wauna between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUGE CREEK
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
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKEY PEN
16 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAKE MINTERWOOD
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCUTTS ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wauna: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Butler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crescent Valley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Port Orchard Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Purdy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stacy-Benson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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
Purdy1.1 miles15
Swede Hill2.2 miles15
Minter2.7 miles14
Canterwood2.8 miles14
Rosedale3.3 miles14
Harbor Heights4.8 miles15
Gig Harbor4.8 miles15
Maplewood4.8 miles14

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 WaunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166578The 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 1509336. 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.