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Diablo, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98283. It stands on Stetattle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Diablo Dam quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Diablo within Whatcom County

On record in Diablo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Diablo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,478 acres in total. 26 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
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkWEE
8 September 2019Natural2.0 acresNorth Cascades National ParkOVERLOOK
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkSOURDOUGH STRIKE
4 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkSOURDOUGH
23 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRoss Lake National Recreation AreaCOLONIAL CREEK
1 September 1994Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkPYRAMID RG
9 August 1998Smokingunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkPYRAMID LK
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkRUBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Diablo: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold. 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
DiabloChromiumUnknown
Diablo ClaimChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Scougale PlacerGoldOccurrence
Scougale PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diablo in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flood. 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
December 2010FloodDiablo$100,000Parts of Highway 20 between Newhalem and Diablo were washed away by heavy rain and flooding.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ruby (historical)4.5 miles9
Newhalem6.3 miles8
Anacortes Crossing17.2 miles7
Cedar Crossing17.3 miles8
Barron22.7 miles8
Boundary31.5 miles16
Glacier44.3 miles17
Warnick46.8 miles17

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 DiabloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17198982The 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 1518740. 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.