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Alderdale, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Horse Heaven Hills Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99322. It stands on Alder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Golgotha Butte quadrangle. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Alderdale within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Alderdale between 1992 and 2017, burning about 3,789 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
7 August 2000Recreation and ceremony600 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeCROWBUTTE
6 August 2016Debris and open burning1,141 acresMcNary National Wildlife RefugeBOARDMAN
4 August 2002Arson/incendiarism41 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeCROWBUTTE
26 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined650 acresSpokane DistrictSOUTH PINE
22 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeMP151
22 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeSR14MP155

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 Alderdale: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Gold. 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
Artesian Coulee PlacerGoldUnknown
Riprap QuarryStonePast Producer
Three- Mile PitStonePast Producer
Six-Mile Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Six-Mile Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Six-Mile Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Six-Mile Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alderdale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reils QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riprap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alderdale in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. 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 2004HailAlderdale-no account filed

Every storm 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
McCredie4.2 miles16
Sixprong6.2 miles13
Moona10.4 miles13
Roosevelt16.9 miles12
Bluelight19.7 miles12
Sundale22.5 miles12
Dot22.6 miles12
Bickleton23.1 miles11

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 AlderdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995356The 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 1510774. 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.