Argyle, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the San Juan Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98250. It lies near Dinner Island. The Survey maps it on the Friday Harbor quadrangle. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Argyle within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Friday Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Roche Harbor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Argyle between 1992 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	33
Debris and open burning	27
Fireworks	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Firearms and explosives use	1
Natural	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
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JACKSON
8 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	AK PACKERS ROCK 2
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TERRACE
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK SJI
2 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	PICKETT'S LANE
2 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	AK PACKERS ROCK
2 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	GCOVEONE
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BEACHEM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Argyle: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Biendle Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Eureka Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Hannah Area Outcrop A	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Hannah Area Outcrop B	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Yansen Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Friday Harbor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Friday Harbor	1.4 miles	10
Lakedale	5.3 miles	10
Lopez	5.6 miles	11
Shaw Island	6.8 miles	11
Orcas	7.0 miles	11
Deer Harbor	7.4 miles	11
Richardson	7.7 miles	12
Port Stanley	8.0 miles	13

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 Argyle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26689511	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 1510786. 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.