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Douglas, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Waterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98858. It lies near Kummer Draw. The Survey maps it on the Douglas quadrangle. It stands 2,379 feet above sea level.

Douglas within Douglas County

On record in Douglas

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Douglas between 2014 and 2020, burning under an acre 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County Fire DistrictsMP 151
14 July 2014Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOUGAR FLATS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Douglas: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Case QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Qs-Do-21Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2019Flash FloodDouglas$1,000Flash Flooding caused mud to flow over Highway 2 east of Waterville. The road was fully blocked by mud for about one hour while highway crews worked to clear the road.
August 2019Flash FloodDouglas$500Mud and debris from thunderstorm heavy rain blocked State Route 3 miles east of Douglas.
June 2015HailDouglas-An emergency manager went through a thunderstorm on highway 97 south of Entiat. The storm produced moderate hail, heavy rainfall, and strong winds. Lightning ignited two new fires but the rainfall quuickly put them out.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindDouglas-72 mph gust from automated fire weather station

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Okanogan City (historical)1.5 miles7
Waterville3.9 miles11
Alstown4.2 miles6
Supplee6.8 miles7
Lamoine9.3 miles7
Farmer10.2 miles6
McLeans Orchard (historical)10.4 miles14
Orondo11.7 miles13

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 DouglasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q61439306The 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 1518894. 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.