BlockEast White Bluffs, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hanford Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98944. The Survey maps it on the Locke Island quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Locke Island quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of East White Bluffs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,869 acres in total. 4 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 ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BURRITO |
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BOAT RAMP |
| 17 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BOAT L SMK |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | CHRYSLER |
| 26 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | HWY 24 MM 61 |
| 2 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | RIVER |
| 12 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 925 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | WLKOLIVES |
| 12 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | 2WY24MP67S |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 East White Bluffs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5329676 | The 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 1510931. 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.