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Cascade Junction, Washington

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Buckley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98385. It stands on Wilkeson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buckley quadrangle.

Cascade Junction within Pierce County

On record in Cascade Junction

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

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.

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 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
Recreation and ceremony16
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Other causes4
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters156TH SREET
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTAHALEH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Cascade Junction: 14 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone. 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
Walker QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Burlington Northern QuarryStonePast Producer
Carbon Ridge BlowdownStonePast Producer
Clearwest-Westfork PitStonePast Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818StonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gregg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
South Prairie1.1 miles29
Burnett1.6 miles29
Wilkeson2.8 miles26
Buckley3.3 miles29
Prairie Ridge3.8 miles28
Carbonado4.2 miles26
Ponderosa Estates4.5 miles28
Rhododendron Park4.5 miles28

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 Q122565276The 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 1517446. 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.