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Westport, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Westport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98595. It lies near Grass Island. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle. 2,213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Westport within Grays Harbor County

On record in Westport

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Westport grew from 2,099 to 2,213 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
20102,099
20202,213+114 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Westport between 1992 and 2018, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPLUM ST
12 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIG STUMP
19 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTWIN HARBORS
18 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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 Westport: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, Platinum. 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
Point BrownTitanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westport in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 1 tornado, 1 storm surge/tide. 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
November 2002Storm Surge/TideWestport$5,000no account filed
December 1997Tornado (F0)Westport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Cohassett1.2 miles11
Westhaven1.4 miles12
Cohassett Beach1.6 miles11
Laidlow2.5 miles11
Bay City3.0 miles11
Ocosta3.5 miles12
Grayland5.5 miles11
Markham5.7 miles12

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 WestportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1007612The 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 1531536. 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.