Clay City, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Eatonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98328. It stands on Twentyfive Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tanwax Lake quadrangle.

Clay City within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

1937 USGS Eatonville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1941 USGS Tanwax Lake quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Ohop Valley quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Ohop Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Ohop Valley quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Tanwax Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Tanwax Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Clay City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2018	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	58TH AVE CT E
24 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

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 Clay City: 13 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Clay City Pits	Clay	Past Producer
Siegmund Ranch	Silica	Occurrence
Enterprise Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lynch Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Eatonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Surprise Valley	1.3 miles	15
Eatonville Junction	3.2 miles	18
Voss Resort	3.5 miles	15
Ohop	3.7 miles	15
Eatonville	4.1 miles	19
Leber	4.3 miles	18
Kapowsin	4.4 miles	15
Jims Corner	5.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1517815. 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.