Edgemoor, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98225. It stands on Padden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eliza Island quadrangle.

Edgemoor within Whatcom County

On record in Edgemoor

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 4 records

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

Larrabee Houselisted 1975 · 0.2 miles away
Fairhaven Historic Districtlisted 1977 · 0.8 miles away
Fairhaven Librarylisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
Woodstock Farmlisted 2021 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Anacortes quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Anacortes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000
1977 USGS Eliza Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Eliza Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Edgemoor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 2 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 ceremony	31
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CLAYTON BEACH 2
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Edgemoor: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Magnesite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chuckanut Bay Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Grandview	Clay	Past Producer
Olivine Mill	Magnesite	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairhaven	0.7 miles	11
Chuckanut Village	0.9 miles	14
South Bellingham	1.2 miles	14
Happy Valley	2.2 miles	14
Chuckanut	3.2 miles	14
Washington Colony (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Bellingham	3.7 miles	17
Lakeway	4.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1531655. 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.