Excelsior, Washington

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.

• 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1941 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1961 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Excelsior in 2002, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Allison
• Brookdale
• Fern Hill
• Fife
• Hillsdale
• Lakeview

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Excelsior: 22 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Pierce County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1531701. 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.