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Eden, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grays River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98643. It stands on South Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosburg quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Eden within Wahkiakum County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Eden between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFALL RUN
27 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEEP RIVER
3 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800
3 August 2002Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 May 1996Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wahkiakum County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eden: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wahkiakum County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eden in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
December 2023FloodEden-The Grays River rose above flood stage on December 4th, cresting at 16.24 feet on December 5th at 9 am, and fell below flood stage on December 6th. Flood stage is 12.0 feet.

Every storm recorded in Wahkiakum 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
Oneida1.8 miles16
Altoona2.2 miles16
Rosburg2.4 miles16
Carlson Landing2.5 miles16
Dahlia3.3 miles14
Svensens Landing3.3 miles16
Deep River3.9 miles16
Grays River4.6 miles14

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 Q27988940The 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 1510935. 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.