Colchester, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Port Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98366. It stands on Curley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bremerton East quadrangle.

Colchester within Kitsap County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Port Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Bremerton East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Colchester between 2004 and 2005, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Fireworks	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 July 2005	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SHERWOOD
22 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HOSKINS HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Colchester: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Diatomite. 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
Harper	Clay	Past Producer
Harper	Diatomite	Occurrence
Bethel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Blossom Construction Co. Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Olsen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Seal Rock	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Waterman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap 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
Manchester	0.8 miles	13
Colby	0.9 miles	13
South Colby	1.6 miles	13
Harper	2.0 miles	13
South Beach	2.7 miles	13
Fort Ward	2.8 miles	13
Waterman	2.9 miles	13
Wautauga Beach	2.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512106. 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.