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White Salmon, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the White Salmon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98672. It stands on Jewett Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Salmon quadrangle. 2,485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

White Salmon within Klickitat County

Population over time

3 figures

White Salmon grew from 2,193 to 2,485 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
20002,193
20102,224+31 (+1%)
20202,485+261 (+12%)

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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of White Salmon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,833 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Recreation and ceremony36
Equipment and vehicle use25
Fireworks25
Smoking23
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Other causes8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresThe Dalles UnitMOSIER EAST
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUGGIE
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaCATHERINE
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,644 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of White Salmon: 40 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Klickitat Co. PitsStone, DimensionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
CoveStonePast Producer
Dollar Pit 1920 TrsStonePast Producer
East PitStonePast Producer
George Property QuarryStonePast Producer
Hanel QuarryStonePast Producer
Hood River Pit & PlantStonePast Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel PitStonePast Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat 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
Bingen1.5 miles15
Laws Corner3.7 miles15
Husum4.9 miles15
Straight Point5.2 miles15
Mountain Brook5.9 miles15
B Z Corner8.5 miles15
Klickitat Heights9.4 miles15
Gilmer10.0 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 White SalmonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019847The 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 1512803. 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.