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B Z Corner, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the White Salmon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98672. It stands on Gilmer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Penny Ridge quadrangle.

B Z Corner within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of B Z Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 383 acres in total. 13 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 burning28
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLYON
8 September 2019Natural3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTAG
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDRY CREEK
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING CREEK
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBZ
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPILE
25 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTRANSFER STATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of B Z Corner: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names B Z Corner in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 lightning. 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
July 2006LightningB Z Corner-Two lightning strikes about 15 minutes apart hit two red fir trees outside of a house. The lightning destroyed two telephones and started a small fire in one of the trees.

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
Gilmer2.7 miles15
Husum3.7 miles15
Mountain Brook6.6 miles15
Laws Corner8.0 miles15
Snowden8.3 miles15
White Salmon8.5 miles15
Laurel9.4 miles14
Bingen9.6 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122595547The 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 1516008. 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.