Gilberton, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Bremerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98311. It stands on Crouch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suquamish quadrangle.

Gilberton within Kitsap County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1937 USGS Port Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Suquamish quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Suquamish quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gilberton between 1992 and 2002, burning about 1 acre 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	PETER
16 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 June 2002	Natural	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 Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gilberton: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Reynolds Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Waterman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ace Paving Dickey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Albright Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barker Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Blossom Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Blossom Construction Co. Sand 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

Every working recorded in Kitsap 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
Trikkala	0.7 miles	15
Kariotis	0.9 miles	15
Treemont	1.2 miles	15
Brownsville	1.3 miles	15
Meadowdale	1.5 miles	13
Fletcher Bay	1.5 miles	15
Tolo	1.5 miles	15
Battle Point	1.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512240. 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.