Cap Sante, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Anacortes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98221. The Survey maps it on the Anacortes North quadrangle.

Cap Sante within Skagit County

On record in Cap Sante

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 9 records

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

W. T. PRESTON (snagboat)National Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.4 miles away
Great Northern Depotlisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall-Anacorteslisted 2019 · 0.5 miles away
California Fruit Storelisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away
Marine Supply and Hardware Complexlisted 1987 · 0.6 miles away
Wilson Hotellisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away
Causland Parklisted 1981 · 0.7 miles away
Anacortes Public Librarylisted 1977 · 0.8 miles away
Semar Blocklisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Anacortes quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Anacortes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1973 USGS Anacortes North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Anacortes North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Cap Sante between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPSITE 9
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPBELL LAKE
3 August 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAP SANTE
29 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HEART LAKE
29 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT. ERIE
27 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT. ERIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Cap Sante: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Copper, Stone. 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	Recorded
Anacortes	Chromium, Platinum	Occurrence	Chromite
Fidalgo Island	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Island Mine	Copper, Magnesite, Iron	Occurrence
Mountain Home Claim	Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Stephens	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Anacopper	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Copper, Gold
Fidalgo Island	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Anacortes Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Anacortes	0.8 miles	12
Guemes	1.5 miles	12
Fidalgo	3.3 miles	14
Sharpes Corner	3.9 miles	14
North Beach	4.1 miles	11
Alexander Beach	4.3 miles	12
Howards Corner	4.5 miles	14
Indian Village	4.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510451. 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.