Ginger, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hanford Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98944. The Survey maps it on the Coyote Rapids quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Ginger within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1916 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ginger between 1993 and 2020, burning about 17,020 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	2

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
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	BOAT RAMP
17 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	BOAT L SMK
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	CHRYSLER
26 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	HWY 24 MM 61
21 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	MP 58
2 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	RIVER
15 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	HWY24MI59
12 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	925 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	WLKOLIVES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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
Bettie	1.2 miles	13
White Bluffs	1.5 miles	12
East White Bluffs	2.4 miles	12
Wahluke	2.8 miles	13
Nancy	3.6 miles	13
Ruth	3.6 miles	12
Pierce	4.3 miles	12
Helen	6.5 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q5563013

The 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 1510989. 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.