Boise, Washington

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98022. It stands on Boise Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buckley quadrangle.

Boise within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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.

1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1942 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Boise between 1993 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	11
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	WHITE FIRE
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BOISE CREEK
17 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TP SQUASH
29 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 July 2001	Other causes	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 King 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 Boise: 13 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Iron. 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
Dobroff	Iron	Occurrence
Road 0602 Pit 1818	Stone	Past Producer
Enumclaw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilderness Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
City Dump Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Osceola	1.5 miles	29
Enumclaw	2.1 miles	18
Birch	3.9 miles	18
Krain	4.5 miles	18
Upper Mill	4.8 miles	18
Wabash	4.9 miles	29
Veazie	5.6 miles	18
Newaukum	7.0 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1516763. 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.