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Creswell Heights, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98607. It lies near Spud Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Larch Mountain quadrangle.

Creswell Heights within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Creswell Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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
Recreation and ceremony99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism24
Fireworks6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Other causes2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters243RD AVE
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersL - 1560 VIEWPOINT
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH LARCH
8 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters232ND AVE
5 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCK PIT FIRE #4
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTOREDAHL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Creswell Heights: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Haag & Shaw PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Livingston QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Silver Star MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer
Silver Star ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, NickelOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
SmithMercuryOccurrence
Washougal PitIronProducer
Washougal ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Ireland2.8 miles21
Sunnyside3.7 miles21
Little Elkhorn4.4 miles23
Fern Prairie4.9 miles23
Livingston5.8 miles23
Dole6.4 miles15
Venersborg7.4 miles15
Washougal7.5 miles24

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 Q122594741The 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 1518329. 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.