Edgewater Beach, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Olympia West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98502. The Survey maps it on the Squaxin Island quadrangle.

Edgewater Beach within Thurston 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.

1937 USGS Olympia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Olympia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Squaxin Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Squaxin Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	30
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GALLAGHER COVE
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	23 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GULL HARBOR
11 September 1993	Other causes	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 Thurston 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 Edgewater Beach: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Quarry 2849-4.1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
Rignall	1.1 miles	16
Boston Harbor	1.9 miles	16
Carlyon Beach	2.0 miles	16
Gravelly Beach	3.6 miles	18
Elizan Beach	4.0 miles	10
North Olympia	4.2 miles	18
Sunset Beach	4.4 miles	18
Sunrise Beach	5.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511881. 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.