Garden City, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McCleary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98557. It stands on East Fork Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCleary quadrangle.

Garden City within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Nahwatzel Lake quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Elma quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Mc Cleary quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	A-LINE
5 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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 Garden City: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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	Recorded
Elma	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	Fossil Placer
Elma	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	Fossil Placer
Cdc Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mccleary # 2 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cloquallum Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Elma Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smiley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Rayville	1.0 miles	9
McCleary Junction	1.9 miles	9
McCleary	2.0 miles	9
Hillgrove	2.1 miles	9
Sine	2.6 miles	9
Greenwood	5.9 miles	15
Elma	6.6 miles	9
Malone	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512233. 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.