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Beebe, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98843. It lies near McNeil Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Chelan Falls quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Beebe within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Beebe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102,650 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use700 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMCCOY
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUNION 3
13 September 1996Natural175 acresSpokane DistrictDEER MTN
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 2003Natural440 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestTHE BUTTE
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1999Natural168 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUNION VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Beebe: 13 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Mica. 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
Chelan ButteTinOccurrence
Chelan Falls DepositMicaPast Producer
Chelan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
ChelanClayPast Producer
Union ValleyClayPast Producer
ButteGoldUnknown
CookGoldPast Producer
Kingsman and PershallGoldPast Producer
Lakeside PlacerGoldProspect
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beebe in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 debris flow. 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 2016Debris FlowBeebe$7,000A Newspaper reported multiple slides on McNeil Canyon Road with one shoulder washed out. In addition two cars and a boat slid several feet due to water flood waters coming down a driveway. This all occurred generally 6 miles east of Chelan, WA.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Mud Spring7.3 miles6
Howard7.8 miles7
Lamoine8.1 miles7
McLeans Orchard (historical)8.2 miles14
Withrow11.9 miles6
Supplee13.4 miles7
Dyer13.5 miles7
Okanogan City (historical)13.8 miles7

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 BeebeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988896The 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 1516367. 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.