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Wilkeson, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Rainier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98396. The Survey maps it on the Wilkeson quadrangle. 499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Wilkeson within Pierce County

On record in Wilkeson

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wilkeson grew from 477 to 499 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
2010477
2020499+22 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Wilkeson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle 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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters156TH SREET
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
5 September 1997Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPRAIRIE CARBON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Wilkeson: 15 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone, Graphite. 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
Prairie CreekGraphiteOccurrence
Walker QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Burlington Northern QuarryStonePast Producer
Carbon Ridge BlowdownStonePast Producer
Clearwest-Westfork PitStonePast Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818StonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel 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
Burnett1.7 miles29
Carbonado1.8 miles26
Cascade Junction2.8 miles29
South Prairie3.6 miles29
Buckley4.1 miles29
Prairie Ridge5.9 miles28
Croker6.0 miles29
Fairfax6.7 miles26

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 WilkesonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506152The 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 1528154. 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.