Fort Flagler, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Oak Bay-Port Ludlow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98358. It lies near Craven Rock. The Survey maps it on the Nordland quadrangle.

Fort Flagler within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Coupeville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Nordland quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Nordland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Flagler between 1992 and 2014, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ISLAND SMOKE
2 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 July 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CASEY BLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Marrowstone	3.0 miles	12
Nordland	3.2 miles	12
Port Townsend	3.7 miles	11
Irondale	5.6 miles	11
Port Hadlock	5.6 miles	11
Glen Cove	5.9 miles	11
Chimacum	7.1 miles	11
Four Corners	7.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1534140. 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.