Dot, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Horse Heaven Hills Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99356. The Survey maps it on the Dot quadrangle.

Dot within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1916 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dot quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Goldendale quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Dot between 1997 and 2019, burning about 686 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROBINSON CRUSOE
12 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WHITE CREEK
24 July 2019	Natural	28 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SQUAW CREEK
21 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 July 1997	Natural	12 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GRASS
30 May 2003	Recreation and ceremony	45 acres	Spokane District	SQUAW CR

Every fire recorded in Klickitat 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
Cleveland	7.2 miles	11
Bickleton	9.4 miles	11
Sundale	10.2 miles	12
Goodnoe Hills	10.7 miles	11
Roosevelt	10.9 miles	12
Bates	12.0 miles	12
Pleasant Valley	13.2 miles	10
Goodnoe	13.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510918. 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.