Doris, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Kittitas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98950. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doris quadrangle.

Doris within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1939 USGS Boylston quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Boylston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Boylston quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Doris quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Doris between 2008 and 2020, burning about 25,268 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DISADVANTAGE
23 July 2019	Natural	2.4 acres	Spokane District	WANAPUM DAM
20 July 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	120 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY
18 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25,000 acres	Spokane District	SADDLE MOUNTAIN
11 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WANAPUM PARK
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	62 acres	Spokane District	CLIFF
8 June 2019	Fireworks	76 acres	Spokane District	WANAPUM
31 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LOWER CRAB CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas 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 Doris: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Sentinel Bluff	Pumice	Occurrence
Cohasett 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 Kittitas 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
Beverly Junction	4.1 miles	16
Vantage	5.5 miles	18
Rye	5.7 miles	11
Levering	6.6 miles	16
Cheviot	8.8 miles	12
Scammon Landing	11.9 miles	9
Boylston	12.3 miles	12
Renslow	16.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510917. 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.