Dexter by the Sea, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Raymond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98590. It stands on Kindred Slough. The Survey maps it on the North Cove quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Dexter by the Sea within Pacific County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1938 USGS Cape Shoalwater quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS North Cove quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Westport quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dexter by the Sea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Fireworks	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
9 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WASHAWAY
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BONE RIVER
14 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	47 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PACIFIC FIRE
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WASH AWAY
12 August 1992	Fireworks	2.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific 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
Tokeland	2.0 miles	14
Venice	2.6 miles	14
North Cove	3.7 miles	12
Heather	5.0 miles	11
Bruceport	6.7 miles	14
Bay Center	6.9 miles	14
Rhodesia Beach	8.0 miles	15
Seaport (historical)	9.2 miles	15

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 Dexter by the Sea	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5268469	The 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 1504467. 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.