Disque, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Crescent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98363. It stands on Whiskey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Disque quadrangle.

Disque within Clallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1918 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500
1922 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Disque quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Port Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Disque between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 ceremony	24
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Fireworks	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	1

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
8 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STRIPED PIT FIRE
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPPC
23 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISHER COVE FIRE
21 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LYRE RIVER CAMPGROUND
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Disque: 10 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fir	Manganese	Unknown	1956
King	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Christopher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fielding Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hillstead Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lyre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Piedmont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ramapo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Joyce	1.9 miles	12
Port Crescent	2.6 miles	12
Piedmont	3.3 miles	15
Crescent	3.6 miles	15
Shadow	4.7 miles	15
Ramapo	4.8 miles	14
Maple Grove	5.3 miles	14
Snug Harbor	5.7 miles	14

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 Q122548617

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 1518803. 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.