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Elliott Ave, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98908. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wiley City quadrangle.

Elliott Ave within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Elliott Ave between 2000 and 2019, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 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
Fireworks8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresYakama AgencyMEDOWBROK
6 August 2015Fireworksunder an acreYakama AgencySOUTH AHTANUM
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresYakama AgencyWEST VALLE
13 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresYakama Agency79TH AHTANUM
8 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresYakama Agency7790 S. AHTANUM
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency6430 SOUTH AHTANUM
4 July 2012Fireworks1.5 acresYakama Agency62ND / S. AHTANUM
4 July 2011Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency62ND AVENUE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima 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 Elliott Ave: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Naches RiverGraphiteOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
YakimaGemstoneOccurrence
Summit View QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima 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
Harwood0.8 miles15
Summitview1.3 miles15
Gromore1.7 miles15
Tietonview Grange2.3 miles15
Weikel2.8 miles14
Wiley City2.9 miles15
West Valley3.2 miles17
Ahtanum3.2 miles17

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 Q122573265The 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 1511756. 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.