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Cleveland, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Horse Heaven Hills Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99356. The Survey maps it on the Bickleton quadrangle.

Cleveland within Klickitat 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 1992 and 2013, burning about 19,178 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPINE CREEK CAMP 1
31 August 2004Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOX SPRINGS
30 August 2007Natural4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROBINSON CRUSOE
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPINE CREEK ROAD
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use50 acresYakama AgencyNORTH BICKLETON
16 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat 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 Cleveland: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ingram QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Matsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998WildfireCleveland-A lightning caused wild fire burned more than 18,500 acres of grassland and forest in Klickitat County. At least 17 outbuildings, including five homes, were destroyed. The entire town of Cleveland was evacuated. In all over 900 people helped fight the fire with no injuries reported. However, nearly 150 head of cattle died as a result of the fire. Heavy rain helped bring the fire under control.

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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
Bickleton3.4 miles11
Dot7.2 miles12
Bluelight10.5 miles12
Pleasant Valley15.8 miles10
Goodnoe Hills16.6 miles11
Roosevelt17.3 miles12
Sundale17.4 miles12
Moona18.3 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on ClevelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5132041The 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 1510881. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.