Bagdad Junction, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Wilbur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99103. The Survey maps it on the Jack Woods Butte quadrangle.

Bagdad Junction within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1948 USGS Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Coulee Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Jack Woods Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bagdad Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COLUMBIA RIVER
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	SPRING CANYON
19 September 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	227 acres	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	SPRINGCANY
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	EDENHARBOR
2 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	FORTYFORTY
2 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	CAMPFIRE15
12 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	202 acres	Spokane District	SORENSEN ROAD
9 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	SPRING CANYON SAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Hesseltine

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bagdad Junction: 7 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Black-Rosauer	Silver, Bismuth, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Hope No. 1	Silver, Gold	Prospect
State Pit Ps-T-158	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Silver Queen	Silver	Prospect
Unnamed 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 Lincoln 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
Hesseltine	5.7 miles	16
Govan	11.1 miles	8
Almira	11.2 miles	8
Clark	13.6 miles	11
Wilbur	14.6 miles	11
Sherman	17.9 miles	11
Creston	23.5 miles	11
Lincoln	27.9 miles	12

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 Q122543715

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 1510801. 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.