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Broadway Heights, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Aberdeen-Hoquiam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98520. It stands on Stewart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aberdeen quadrangle.

Broadway Heights within Grays Harbor County

On record in Broadway Heights

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Broadway Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJEFFERSON
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersABERDEEN LAKE #2
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePacific Cascade Region-DNRHUNTLEY
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBISHOP
13 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENDERSON ROAD
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKUNK CABAGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Broadway Heights: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Gold. 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
Cow Point PlacerGoldOccurrence
HoquiamGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Hoquiam QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
West AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hagara PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Junction City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Bel-Aire0.4 miles9
Herbig Heights0.4 miles9
Pilgrim Heights0.6 miles9
Aberdeen1.2 miles9
North Aberdeen1.3 miles9
East Aberdeen1.7 miles9
South Aberdeen2.1 miles9
East Hoquiam2.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514093. 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.