Balch, Washington

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.

• 1941 USGS Gate quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Oakville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Chehalis River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Balch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Oakville
• Cedarville
• Chehalis Village
• Lankner
• Porter

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Balch: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510804. 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.