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Cispus, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Morton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98336. The Survey maps it on the Cowlitz Falls quadrangle.

Cispus within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Cispus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRANCH FIRE
7 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1994Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 1998Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2009Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTANAPAUM PARK
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFROST CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cispus: 17 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Morton A and BSilicaOccurrence
Fairhurst PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CispusPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River A DepositPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River BPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River CPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River DPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River EPumiceOccurrence
Cispus River FPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Glenoma2.5 miles16
Kosmos (historical)3.5 miles15
Nesika8.9 miles14
Randle9.2 miles23
Morton9.3 miles16
Vance (not official)9.9 miles23
Siler10.3 miles23
Silver Brook11.8 miles23

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 Q122594356The 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 1517789. 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.