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Baileysburg, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. It lies near Davis Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle.

Baileysburg within Columbia County

On record in Baileysburg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Baileysburg between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPAYNE HOLLOW
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBMIDC 1010 - SOUTH TOUCHEE
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColumbia County Fire DistrictsINC 994
2 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 2001Other causes275 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 2014Arson/incendiarism7.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBMIDC INC 995
12 August 2014Natural100 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBMIDC INC 914 - CORRAL HOLLOW
6 July 2001Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Baileysburg: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
DaytonClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gaines QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Patit Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baileysburg in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 hail. 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 2012HailBaileysburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Dayton2.0 miles14
Long4.0 miles10
Ronan4.7 miles14
Mountain Home Park5.3 miles14
Patit5.6 miles16
Dumas5.8 miles10
Varna6.9 miles10
Whetstone7.1 miles13

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 Q97223201The 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 1510802. 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.