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Zillah, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sunnyside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98953. The Survey maps it on the Toppenish quadrangle. 3,179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Zillah within Yakima County

On record in Zillah

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

Zillah grew from 2,964 to 3,179 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
20102,964
20203,179+215 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

186 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Zillah between 1995 and 2019, burning about 4,431 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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
Fireworks58
Debris and open burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism26
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYakama AgencyGERMANTOWN RD.
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresYakama Agency942 WINAWAY
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency940 WINAWAY
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency200 ELMWOOD
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYakama AgencyKING FIRE
4 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency101 YOUNGTOWN RD.
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresYakama AgencyEAST BRANCH
26 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresYakama Agency6281 HWY 97

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Zillah: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Pumice. 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
W.I. WendtClayPast Producer
Zillah PitPumicePast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zillah Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zillah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zillah in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 1 tornado, 1 dust devil. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 2019Dust DevilZillah5 hurtAccording to media reports a bounce house was lofted up to 20 feet in the air and thrown up to 240 feet from its original position by localized strong winds. Video from the aftermath shows a dust devil in the background. Winds from a nearby mesonet station were less than 20 mph. Five youths inside the bounce house were injured, 1 critically.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Zillah-A weak landspout type tornado developed over open fields north of Zillah. This tornado was videotaped by many people and moved slowly towards the southwest, traveling less than one-quarter of a mile in 15 minutes.

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
Toppenish3.0 miles13
Buena3.3 miles13
Wesley Junction4.1 miles13
Alfalfa5.1 miles12
Flint5.4 miles13
Granger5.7 miles12
Sawyer6.5 miles13
Liberty6.9 miles12

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 ZillahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q781706The 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 1512822. 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.