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Bristol, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It stands on Bristol Flat. The Survey maps it on the Teanaway quadrangle. It stands 1,798 feet above sea level.

Bristol within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,429 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning20
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Other causes3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSESHOE CANYON
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWENDY'S
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLOOM PLACE
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORRISON CANYON 2
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORRISON CANYON
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined167 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAYWARD FIRING RANGE
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOPING ROAD
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas 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 Bristol: 12 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. 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
Unnamed PitStonePast Producer
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Virden LocalityGemstoneProspect
Adams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cooper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dubinsky QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perry PlacerGoldPast Producer
Perry PlacerGoldPast Producer
Sheep Springs PlacerGoldProspect
Yakima River PlacerGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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
Horlick1.2 miles17
Teanaway3.8 miles17
Lauderdale Junction6.2 miles15
Cle Elum8.3 miles16
South Cle Elum8.5 miles16
Thorp8.5 miles14
Liberty10.3 miles15
Roslyn11.7 miles16

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 Q4968747The 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 1516962. 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.