Crossings / Washington
Washington
crossings.
Cities6710+ crossings each
Public crossings1,515at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates34%843 with no active device
Reported incidents247Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 1,515 public at-grade crossings across the 67 Washington cities with at least ten of them. Seattle has the most at 123.
BNSF Railway Company operates the most of them at 546, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 215.
56% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 34% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Washington city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle | King | 123 | 11% | 5 | 42 |
| Yakima | Yakima | 85 | 14% | 0 | 4 |
| Tacoma | Pierce | 84 | 20% | 0 | 38 |
| Spokane | Spokane | 67 | 31% | 0 | 7 |
| Walla Walla | Walla Walla | 54 | 13% | 0 | 1 |
| Kennewick | Benton | 51 | 53% | 0 | 7 |
| Centralia | Lewis | 41 | 46% | 0 | 4 |
| Moses Lake | Grant | 35 | 6% | 0 | 0 |
| Kent | King | 34 | 38% | 0 | 17 |
| Vancouver | Clark | 29 | 55% | 5 | 4 |
| Bellingham | Whatcom | 28 | 75% | 3 | 8 |
| Renton | King | 28 | 39% | 0 | 1 |
| Spokane Valley | Spokane | 28 | 79% | 2 | 1 |
| Burlington | Skagit | 27 | 74% | 4 | 10 |
| Chehalis | Lewis | 24 | 42% | 0 | 8 |
| Olympia | Thurston | 22 | 18% | 0 | 1 |
| Sedro Woolley | Skagit | 22 | 55% | 0 | 1 |
| Sunnyside | Yakima | 22 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Warden | Grant | 21 | 5% | 0 | 1 |
| Elma | Grays Harbor | 20 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Longview | Cowlitz | 20 | 40% | 0 | 1 |
| Pasco | Franklin | 20 | 25% | 0 | 0 |
| Pullman | Whitman | 20 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
| Marysville | Snohomish | 19 | 74% | 0 | 5 |
| Dayton | Columbia | 18 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Prosser | Benton | 18 | 33% | 0 | 0 |
| Toppenish | Yakima | 18 | 44% | 0 | 7 |
| Cheney | Spokane | 17 | 76% | 0 | 3 |
| Davenport | Lincoln | 17 | 6% | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Vernon | Skagit | 17 | 65% | 0 | 9 |
| Othello | Adams | 17 | 0% | 0 | 4 |
| Puyallup | Pierce | 17 | 76% | 0 | 17 |
| Richland | Benton | 17 | 59% | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeen | Grays Harbor | 16 | 19% | 0 | 1 |
| Auburn | King | 16 | 75% | 0 | 7 |
| Ferndale | Whatcom | 16 | 75% | 0 | 1 |
| Ritzville | Adams | 16 | 75% | 0 | 1 |
| Shelton | Mason | 16 | 38% | 0 | 0 |
| Battle Ground | Clark | 15 | 53% | 0 | 0 |
| Grandview | Yakima | 15 | 53% | 0 | 1 |
| Hoquiam | Grays Harbor | 15 | 27% | 0 | 1 |
| Sumas | Whatcom | 15 | 67% | 0 | 1 |
| Chewelah | Stevens | 14 | 43% | 0 | 0 |
| Ephrata | Grant | 14 | 86% | 0 | 1 |
| Reardan | Lincoln | 14 | 14% | 0 | 1 |
| Washougal | Clark | 14 | 43% | 5 | 6 |
| Ione | Pend Oreille | 13 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Oakesdale | Whitman | 13 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Otis Orchards | Spokane | 13 | 54% | 0 | 4 |
| Tukwila | King | 13 | 0% | 0 | 2 |
| Creston | Lincoln | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Ellensburg | Kittitas | 12 | 25% | 0 | 0 |
| Palouse | Whitman | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Rosalia | Whitman | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Wilbur | Lincoln | 12 | 17% | 0 | 1 |
| Deer Park | Spokane | 11 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Kalama | Cowlitz | 11 | 18% | 0 | 2 |
| Medical Lake | Spokane | 11 | 27% | 0 | 2 |
| St John | Whitman | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Stanwood | Snohomish | 11 | 73% | 0 | 1 |
| Sumner | Pierce | 11 | 82% | 0 | 7 |
| Wenatchee | Chelan | 11 | 45% | 4 | 3 |
| Harrah | Yakima | 10 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
| Mabton | Yakima | 10 | 40% | 0 | 3 |
| Newport | Pend Oreille | 10 | 20% | 0 | 0 |
| Waitsburg | Walla Walla | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Yacolt | Clark | 10 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.