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Dungeness, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sequim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98382. It lies in Dungeness Valley. The Survey maps it on the Dungeness OE E quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Dungeness within Clallam County

On record in Dungeness

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 8 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dungeness between 1998 and 2019, burning about 153 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREYS MARSH
3 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERVIEW
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2001Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2007Natural11 acresDungeness National Wildlife RefugeSPIT
27 August 1998Fireworks25 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 August 2003Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dungeness: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Hallers PitStone, DimensionProducer
Christie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eberle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lotzgazelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mc Innes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Old Town1.5 miles8
Jamestown2.3 miles8
Carlsborg4.7 miles12
Sequim4.8 miles13
Rena5.2 miles12
Port Williams5.4 miles13
River Road5.4 miles12
Washington Harbor6.2 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 DungenessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473841The 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 1512162. 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.