Alpha, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mineral census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98570. It stands on Stowell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield Lake quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Alpha within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1916 USGS Chehalis quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1943 USGS Willapa quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Onalaska quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Mayfield Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Alpha between 1992 and 2019, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BURCHETTE
25 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Alpha: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Alpha Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Newaukum	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Tilton River	Diatomite	Occurrence
Huntting Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cinebar	3.9 miles	17
Lacamas	4.3 miles	17
Salkum	5.6 miles	17
Silver Creek	6.0 miles	17
Onalaska	6.5 miles	17
Mayfield	7.3 miles	17
Harmony	7.4 miles	16
Phillips	7.7 miles	17

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 Alpha	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4734877	The 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 1515823. 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.