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Columbia Valley Gardens, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Longview-Kelso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98632. It lies near Mount Solo. The Survey maps it on the Kelso quadrangle.

Columbia Valley Gardens within Cowlitz County

On record in Columbia Valley Gardens

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Columbia Valley Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 1 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony22
Fireworks7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILL STREET
9 September 1999Smokingunder an acreColumbia City UnitALSTON-MAYGER ROAD
28 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHARBOR VIEW DR. #1
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance55 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCARLON
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCKY POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Columbia Valley Gardens: 25 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Aluminum. 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
(Facility) Longview Aluminum SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant
Mount 5640 QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Sig Fransen Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grady QuarryStonePast Producer
LongviewAluminumOccurrence
Section 4AluminumOccurrence
UnknownStonePast Producer
40th Street QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alder Bluff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coal Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz 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
West Longview1.5 miles11
Valley View Tracts1.5 miles11
Columbia Heights1.8 miles11
Longview Heights1.8 miles11
Evergreen Terrace2.1 miles11
Longview2.4 miles11
Monticello (historical)2.4 miles11
West Kelso2.9 miles11

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 Q122546592The 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 1512111. 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.