Chaffee, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Northwest Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99320. The Survey maps it on the Corral Canyon quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Chaffee within Benton 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.

1915 USGS Prosser quadrangle1:125000
1917 USGS Prosser quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Corral Canyon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Corral Canyon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Chaffee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,774 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Firearms and explosives use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58 acres	Spokane District	MCBEE
8 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Spokane District	MC BEE
22 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1,680 acres	Spokane District	MCBEE
19 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2,200 acres	Spokane District	I 82
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,275 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	LOCUST GROVE
14 July 2016	Firearms and explosives use	1,689 acres	Spokane District	MCBEE COMMAND
14 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Spokane District	MCBEE
28 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Spokane District	YAKITAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Chaffee: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Kiona	Diatomite	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Gibbon	3.4 miles	10
Whitstran	5.5 miles	10
Benton City	6.3 miles	12
Kiona	6.9 miles	10
North Prosser	8.8 miles	11
Prosser	9.4 miles	11
Kinneyville (historical)	10.5 miles	11
Horse Heaven	11.7 miles	10

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 Q5066785

The 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 1510869. 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.