Factoria, Washington

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seattle East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98005. It stands on Sunset Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mercer Island quadrangle.

Factoria within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Mercer Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Bellevue South quadrangle1:25000
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Factoria in 2017, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	8TH AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Factoria: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Coal Creek Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Factoria Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel 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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Norwood Village	0.5 miles	23
Woodridge	0.9 miles	23
Newport	1.0 miles	23
Somerset	1.3 miles	23
Eastgate	1.3 miles	23
Sunset Village	1.4 miles	23
Newport Shores	1.6 miles	23
Wilburton	1.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510958. 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.