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Covada, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99138. It lies near Stray Dog Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cedonia quadrangle. It stands 2,234 feet above sea level.

Covada within Ferry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Covada between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,245 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 16 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
Natural58
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes6
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11,797 acresColville AgencyKEWA FIELD
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEBBETTS RIDGE
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresColville AgencyTRUDELL
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHARRY HARVEY
24 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreColville AgencyLOVER'S LA
23 September 1992Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 1992Recreation and ceremony75 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColville AgencyBOAT LAUNCH # 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 289 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 289 workings within 5 miles of Covada: 134 occurrences, 97 unknowns, 37 prospects, 15 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
AdvanceSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldProspectVein
AdvanceSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincUnknown
Advance CabinSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite
AllenBarium-BariteOccurrence
Big ChiefTungsten, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum, ZincOccurrenceMolybdenite, Sphalerite, Wolframite
Big ChiefLead, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten, SilverProspectVein
Black HawkLead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc, GoldOccurrenceVein
Black HawkIron, Antimony, Gold, Silver, ZincUnknown
BrooksSilver, Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite
ClarkLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceMarl

Every working recorded in Ferry 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
Kewa3.9 miles10
Impach4.9 miles10
Meteor5.1 miles8
Inchelium5.3 miles10
Hazelmere (historical)9.8 miles10
Beulah (historical)25.9 miles14
Keller27.1 miles9
Harter28.8 miles12

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 CovadaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988925The 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 1510892. 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.