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Wishram, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Dallesport-Klickitat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98673. The Survey maps it on the Wishram quadrangle. 366 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Wishram within Klickitat County

Population over time

3 figures

Wishram grew from 213 to 366 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
2000213
2010342+129 (+61%)
2020366+24 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Wishram between 1998 and 2019, burning about 36,848 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,500 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSTONEHENGE
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaHAYSTACK
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresYakama AgencyMM 95
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaCELILO PARK
5 August 1998Smoking5.0 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWISHRAM EAST
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use270 acresYakama AgencyWISHRAM
29 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution11,008 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWISHRAM 2
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaCOLEFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wishram: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Gemstones MineGemstone, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed SiteGemstone, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Fulton CanyonStonePast Producer
Layman No3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pacific Northwest Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
WilliamsStonePast Producer
Bryant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fulton Canyon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jasper PitGemstonePast Producer
Jasper PitGemstoneProducer

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
Wishram Heights0.6 miles10
Warwick4.8 miles10
Gooseneck5.3 miles16
Centerville7.4 miles9
Maryhill8.4 miles10
Swale8.9 miles13
Smithville10.5 miles17
Dallesport11.6 miles17

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 WishramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504223The 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 1528268. 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.