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Yacolt, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Yacolt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98675. The Survey maps it on the Yacolt quadrangle. 1,668 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Yacolt within Clark County

On record in Yacolt

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Yacolt grew from 1,566 to 1,668 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
20101,566
20201,668+102 (+7%)

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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Yacolt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning56
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters354TH ST
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST GARNER
3 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 1992Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFALLS ROAD
22 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1995Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yacolt: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yacolt in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindYacolt-A wind gust knocked a small tree down, blocking a roadway.
September 1997Tornado (F0)Yacolt-A weak tornado near Yacolt knocked down 3 trees and a telephone pole.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Lucia2.4 miles15
Moulton2.4 miles15
Amboy3.7 miles14
Chelatchie4.5 miles14
Heisson5.3 miles15
Alpine5.5 miles15
Fargher Lake5.9 miles14
Crawford6.0 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 YacoltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502151The 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 1528335. 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.