Forest Beach, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Gig Harbor Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98335. The Survey maps it on the Fox Island quadrangle.

Forest Beach within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Sylvan quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Forest Beach between 1996 and 2018, burning about 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CUTTS ISLAND
26 May 2002	Recreation and ceremony	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 Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Forest Beach: 3 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
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 Pierce 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
Arletta	1.1 miles	14
Warren	2.1 miles	14
Sunrise Beach	2.1 miles	14
Rosedale	3.2 miles	14
Castlenook (historical)	3.4 miles	14
Artondale	3.6 miles	15
Cromwell	3.8 miles	15
Lake Bay	3.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512220. 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.