Comar, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98244. It stands on McCarty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Acme quadrangle.

Comar within Whatcom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1921 USGS Wickersham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Wickersham quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Acme quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Comar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 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 burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 September 1995	Fireworks	50 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	WEXLA
29 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HUTCHISON CK
28 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STANDARD CREEK
26 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POTTER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Comar: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Acme Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Acme	1.0 miles	12
Clipper	2.0 miles	11
Saxon	3.1 miles	12
Doran	3.7 miles	12
Van Zandt	4.0 miles	11
Mirror Lake	4.9 miles	12
Blue Canyon	5.2 miles	13
Wickersham	5.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1517990. 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.