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Belmore, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Olympia West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98512. The Survey maps it on the Maytown quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Belmore within Thurston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Belmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning29
Recreation and ceremony23
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Fireworks3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALL FIRE
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEBSTER
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTROSPER LAKE
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Belmore: 19 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Tumwater Sand & Gravel PitStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Delphi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jones QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mottman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Webber QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Capital Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Capitol Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Case Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Decatur St. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deschutes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
Lamberts Corner1.1 miles18
Delphi3.0 miles14
Tumwater3.1 miles18
South Union4.2 miles21
Bush4.5 miles21
Olympia4.8 miles18
Marshville (historical)5.1 miles18
Maytown6.3 miles21

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 BelmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888573The 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 1510818. 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.