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Yakima, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98901. The Survey maps it on the Yakima West quadrangle. 96,968 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

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Yakima within Yakima County

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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 12 of 43 shown

Every listing in Yakima County

Population over time

2 figures

Yakima grew from 91,067 to 96,968 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
201091,067
202096,968+5,901 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,319 words

1 chapter about Yakima from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties; WitAn Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties; with an Outline of the Early History of the State of Washington (1904)1,319 words

Fires near this place

43 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Yakima between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,361 acres in total. None 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
Fireworks31
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency42ND & MCCULLOUGH RD
19 September 2012Arson/incendiarism191 acresYakama AgencyFRUIT STAND
1 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresYakama AgencyAHTANUM RG
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeCOYOTE CREEK
7 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency16TH AND GILBERT
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency16TH / GILBERT
5 July 2014Fireworksunder an acreYakama AgencyGILBERT 2
5 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreYakama AgencyGRAVEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Yakima: 27 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Clay. 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
SelahSilicaOccurrence
Willow Springs No. 3Gold, SilverProspect
YakimaGemstoneOccurrence
KaiserClayPast Producer
YakimaClayPast Producer
Selah No. 1PumiceOccurrence
Selah No. 2PumiceOccurrence
State QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Union Gap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
WenasPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yakima in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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
May 2006LightningYakima$35,000Lightning struck a weather vane on top of a barn and sparked a fire that destroyed the barn roof.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindYakima$5,000Strong winds from thunderstorms blew down around 100 trees along Highway 410 one mile west of the junction with Highway 12. Power lines were also downed. At the same time high winds peeled back a metal roof 9 miles west of the Highway 12 intersection.
May 2005Flash FloodYakima$3,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindYakima$2,000Strong winds associated with a thunderstorm knocked down several trees, and knocked out power to about 750 customers. A weather spotter five miles east of Yakima reported a wind gust to 55 MPH at 4:59 PM PST. The Yakima ASOS at the Yakima airport reported a peak wind gust to 53 MPH at 4:54 PM PST. The property damage from this event is estimated at $2,000.
July 2010HailYakima-Observer reported 1/2 to 3/4 inch hail.
July 2010HailYakima-Yakima Sheriff Dispatch reported 1 inch diameter hail.
May 2004Flash FloodYakima-A weather spotter reported .50 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Yakima from a nearly stationary storm. This resulted in deep water on 56th Avenue and Summitview in Yakima, with cars stalling out and forcing a lane closure. During the storm, 60 Pacific Power customers lost electricity.
June 2002LightningYakima-Lightning knocked out power to 4,000 customers in Yakima. The storms produced hail and flooding on some intersections.
August 1999LightningYakima-Lightning struck a power substation west of the Central Washington fairgrounds early in the morning interrupting power to 4000 homes for 5 hours. These storms produced over 400 strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning and started 40 small fires in the Wenatchee National Forest.
April 2005Flash FloodYakima-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudYakima-no account filed
October 2005HailYakima-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Washington Park1.0 miles14
South Broadway2.5 miles17
Fruitvale2.7 miles17
Union Gap3.5 miles14
Terrace Heights3.5 miles14
Selah3.8 miles16
Pomona Heights4.0 miles15
Birchfield4.2 miles14

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 YakimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q499203The 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 1509643. 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.