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Brandts Landing, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98813. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport Point quadrangle.

Brandts Landing within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Brandts Landing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 230,767 acres in total. 6 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use1
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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined223,731 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPEARL HILL
30 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresColville AgencyLAGRANGE ROAD
30 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution5,506 acresSpokane DistrictHIGHLAND ROAD
25 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution13 acresColville AgencyHIGHWAY 17
21 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencySQUIRREL FIRE
19 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyBRIDGEPORT
12 September 1996Naturalunder an acreColville AgencySILVER CK
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencySMOKESHACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brandts Landing: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Emerson Hanford PropertyStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heintz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Bridgeport7.4 miles11
Nilles Corner7.6 miles10
Rocky Butte8.0 miles11
Downing8.1 miles11
Leahy11.9 miles6
Dyer13.1 miles7
Fairview14.0 miles6
Osborne Corner16.2 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122565552The 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 1531597. 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.