Beaver, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Forks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98305. It lies near Tyee Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Lake Pleasant quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Beaver within Clallam County

On record in Beaver

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 1 record

Beaver Schoollisted 1992

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1935 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Beaver between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres 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
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH HWY 101
18 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BROKEN BOAT FIRE
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LAKE CREEK FIRE
4 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SAPPHO ACCESS
3 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MERRY CLARK
28 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DIIMMEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beaver: 4 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
Beaver Falls Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Shuwah	3.2 miles	10
Sappho	3.7 miles	11
Forks	7.6 miles	11
Old Royal	10.3 miles	10
Quillayute	13.0 miles	11
Sekiu	14.4 miles	10
Clallam Bay	14.4 miles	10
Bayview Recreational Vehicle Park	14.4 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Beaver	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4877980	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 1527580. 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.