Birchwood, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98225. It stands on Squalicum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ferndale quadrangle.

Birchwood within Whatcom County

On record in Birchwood

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Eldridge Homesite and Mansionlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1907 USGS Blaine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Blaine quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Birchwood between 1993 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	28
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COTTONWOOD
2 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STUART RD
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CORNWALL BEACH
10 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STATE STREET
4 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Birchwood: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Bentonite. 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
Brennan Pit	Bentonite	Past Producer
Olivine Mill	Magnesite	Past Producer
Griffin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Alderwood	0.6 miles	13
Bellingham	1.6 miles	17
Parkview	1.8 miles	17
Washington Colony (historical)	2.1 miles	17
Eureka	3.3 miles	17
Roosevelt	3.4 miles	17
Marietta	3.7 miles	13
Fairhaven	3.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514129. 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.