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East Hoquiam, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Aberdeen-Hoquiam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98550. It stands on Hoquiam River. The Survey maps it on the Aberdeen quadrangle.

East Hoquiam within Grays Harbor County

On record in East Hoquiam

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 within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of East Hoquiam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJEFFERSON
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePacific Cascade Region-DNRHUNTLEY
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBISHOP
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENDERSON ROAD
9 August 1996Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2017Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORTH RIVER
8 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of East Hoquiam: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Gold. 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
Cow Point PlacerGoldOccurrence
HoquiamGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Hoquiam QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
West AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hagara PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Junction City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Hoquiam1.3 miles12
Herbig Heights1.8 miles9
Pilgrim Heights1.9 miles9
Woodlawn1.9 miles10
Broadway Heights2.1 miles9
Bel-Aire2.2 miles9
Aberdeen2.6 miles9
North Aberdeen3.3 miles9

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 Q122543034The 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 1512171. 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.