Edwards, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Connell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99343. It lies near Old Maid Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Mesa West quadrangle.

Edwards within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1925 USGS Scooteney Lake quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Scooteney Lake quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Mesa West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Edwards between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9,827 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Spokane District	ESQUATZEL
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	475 acres	Spokane District	ESQUATZEL
22 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	Spokane District	KENNEDY
3 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Spokane District	MILE POST 50
7 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8,743 acres	Spokane District	MATSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Edwards: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mesa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stock Gravel Crushing, Inc., Keith	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Goodfellow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mesa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mesa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Mesa	1.8 miles	11
Cactus	5.6 miles	8
Eltopia	6.3 miles	10
Five Corners	8.0 miles	8
Basin City	8.4 miles	11
Sagemoor	10.8 miles	10
Connell	10.9 miles	8
Schlomer	11.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510938. 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.