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Duckabush, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Quilcene Bay-Brinnon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98320. It stands on Duckabush River. The Survey maps it on the Brinnon quadrangle.

Duckabush within Jefferson County

On record in Duckabush

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

8 surveys from 17 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Duckabush between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2003Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreOlympic National Forest600
27 September 2003Fireworks12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2003Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 1994Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 1999Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ForestDUCK
4 August 1997Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Duckabush: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albino RodriquezManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
Bucks Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Davies PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pierce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Seabheck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Lackawanna Beach1.4 miles17
Brinnon2.6 miles17
Seal Rock4.9 miles17
Coyle7.4 miles16
Bees Mill8.6 miles12
Quilcene12.1 miles13
East Quilcene12.8 miles12
Camp Discovery13.2 miles12

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 Q122564909The 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 1518987. 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.