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Getchell, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98258. It stands on Getchell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Stevens quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Getchell within Snohomish County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Getchell between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Smokingunder an acrePuget Sound AgencyFREEWAY
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON DR
14 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters112TH ST
5 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOPEYES CORNER
3 August 1997Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresPuget Sound AgencyDIRT PIT
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOYOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Getchell: 12 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arlington Pit and PlantLimestone, DimensionProducer
Clayburn PitClayProducer
Twitchell QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Getchell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sisco Heights3.0 miles18
North Marysville3.3 miles17
Lochsloy3.7 miles18
Hartford4.1 miles18
Sobey4.3 miles18
Lake Stevens4.3 miles18
Sisco4.4 miles19
Marysville4.5 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GetchellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988955The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1505119. 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.