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.
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
Coke Ovenslisted 1974
Holy Trinity Orthodox Churchlisted 1989
Wilkeson Archlisted 2000
Wilkeson Community Houselisted 2013
Wilkeson Schoollisted 1976- Walker Cut Stone Companylisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresWilkeson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 477 | |
| 2020 | 499 | +22 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1942 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Wilkeson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 156TH SREET |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 1994 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PRAIRIE CARBON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Creek | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Walker Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Burlington Northern Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Carbon Ridge Blowdown | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Clearwest-Westfork Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Road 0602 Pit 1818 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnett | 1.7 miles | 29 | |
| Carbonado | 1.8 miles | 26 | |
| Cascade Junction | 2.8 miles | 29 | |
| South Prairie | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Buckley | 4.1 miles | 29 | |
| Prairie Ridge | 5.9 miles | 28 | |
| Croker | 6.0 miles | 29 | |
| Fairfax | 6.7 miles | 26 |
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 Wilkeson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506152 | The 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.








