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Cordell, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Oroville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98844. The Survey maps it on the Ellisforde quadrangle.

Cordell within Okanogan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Cordell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,026 acres in total. 51 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
Natural51
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Other causes6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCK LAKE STRIKE
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCK N WANNACUT
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 2005Other causes3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILL COOKER
16 September 2003Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMCDONALD
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWANNACUT
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOROVILLE SIDE
10 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMOSQUITO CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Cordell: 11 occurrences, 11 unknowns, 8 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Lead, Copper. 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
BellevueGold, Silver, Copper, AntimonyProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Silver, Stephanite
Bonanza No.4Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
E-10Lead, Copper, ArsenicUnknown
E-15Lead, Copper, Silver, ZincUnknown
E-17Lead, Zinc, CopperUnknown
Forty Ninth ParallelTungsten, GoldPast Producer
O K CopperGold, Tungsten, SilverProspect
Okanogan CountyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oroville Brick YardBrick ClayProspect
Poison LakeGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cordell in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2024Thunderstorm WindCordell$2,000Multiple trees down and power poles snapped in the Wannacut Lake area. Oroville RAWS reported a gust of 55 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Okanogan 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
Oroville5.2 miles15
Ellisforde5.3 miles13
Enterprise6.6 miles11
Tonasket11.2 miles11
Havillah11.3 miles12
Loomis12.1 miles11
Molson13.7 miles12
Nighthawk14.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1518106. 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.