Beulah, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Ferry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99141. It stands on Sherman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bangs Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Beulah within Ferry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1936 USGS Marcus quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Marcus quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Kettle Falls quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Kettle Falls quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Bangs Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Republic quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Bangs Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Beulah (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,474 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 9 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
Natural	53
Recreation and ceremony	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Debris and open burning	36
Fireworks	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Other causes	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	3

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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	TROUT CREEK
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	484 acres	Colville National Forest	BISBEE MOUNTAIN
8 September 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Colville National Forest	SOUTH TROUT
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NARROW GATE
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIFER ROAD
7 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POTTERS KNOB
7 September 1994	Other causes	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	RICKEY POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Beulah (historical): 25 occurrences, 13 prospects, 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Nickel. 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	Recorded
Ark	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Ark	Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Ark Silver Queen	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Antimony	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Bluegrouse	Silver, Iron	Prospect
City View	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
City View	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Columbia, Coyote, Gray Eagle	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Cornet	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Prospect
E.M.C.	Lead, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Emc	Lead, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Ferry 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
Harter	2.9 miles	12
Boyds	8.4 miles	13
Barstow	12.8 miles	14
Dulwich	17.9 miles	14
Orient	19.2 miles	14
Inchelium	20.6 miles	10
Impach	21.6 miles	10
Goldstake	23.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1530568. 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.