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Willapa, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Willapa Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98577. It stands on Ward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

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Willapa within Pacific County

Population over time

2 figures

Willapa fell from 210 to 208 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
2010210
2020208-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Willapa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersA 100
30 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPATRICK FIRE
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWARD CREEK
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALLIS LANDING
24 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWILSON B-LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Willapa: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
D-4 QuarryStonePast Producer
Willapa No. 2ClayOccurrence
N. Willapa River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Pit Ing CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willapa in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 7 flood. 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
December 2007FloodWillapa$10,000,000The Willapa River flooded near Willapa, reaching major flood levels. Downtown Raymond had a depth of 2 feet of flood water due to a combination of coastal flooding and flooding of the Willapa. Residents in the Willapa valley stated they had never seen the Willapa river as high as it was. Also, minor flooding of the Naselle river sent some water over Hwy. 401. NOTE: Damage estimates are for the entire Pacific county.
December 2023FloodWillapa-The Willapa River at Willapa rose reached minor flood stage during a period of 1 and half hours, cresting at 21.03 feet at 315 pm on December 5th.
January 2021FloodWillapa-The Willapa River at Willapa (WILW1) reached flood stage at 0345PST, crested at 21.2 feet then dropped below flood stage at 0800PST on January 3rd. Flood stage is 21.0 feet.
November 2015FloodWillapa-Five day rainfall totals ending in the morning of Nov 17th in the Willapa Hills were 8 to 12 inches. This rain resulted in the Willapa River to exceed flood stage around 11 pm on the 17th. The River crested at 21.12 feet which is 1.1 feet above flood stage.
January 2009FloodWillapa-Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Willapa River to overflow its banks.
January 2006FloodWillapa-no account filed
January 2006FloodWillapa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pacific 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
East Raymond1.5 miles13
Raymond3.6 miles13
Menlo3.8 miles12
Firdale6.1 miles13
South Bend7.4 miles15
Holcomb7.5 miles13
Sutico8.0 miles13
Seahaven (historical)8.3 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 WillapaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16083669The 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 1513245. 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.