Avondale, Washington

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seattle East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98052. It stands on Cottage Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Redmond quadrangle.

Avondale within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Redmond quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Avondale in 1994, burning under an acre in total. None 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	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
17 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	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 King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Avondale: 18 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Alberg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cadman Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hos Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Issaquah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
R & R Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
White	0.4 miles	22
Redmond	2.5 miles	22
Hollywood	2.7 miles	22
Campton	2.8 miles	22
Cottage Lake	3.0 miles	22
Hollywood Hill	3.0 miles	22
Earlmont	3.1 miles	22
Willows	3.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511976. 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.