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Goodnoe Hills, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Horse Heaven Hills Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99356. The Survey maps it on the Goodnoe Hills quadrangle.

Goodnoe Hills within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Goodnoe Hills between 1994 and 2018, burning about 21,883 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPrineville District0557
24 August 2000Natural800 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesLONG HOUSE 2
18 August 2001Debris and open burning1,000 acresYakama AgencyROCK CRK
18 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance11,526 acresSpokane DistrictGOODNOE
13 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use168 acresYakama AgencyROCK CREEK
10 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresPrineville District0742 PHILLIPI CANYON
8 July 2012Natural787 acresYakama AgencyROCK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Goodnoe Hills: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Stone, Diatomite. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Chapman CreekDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goodnoe HillsSilicaOccurrence
SundaleSilicaPast Producer
Thompson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodnoe Hills in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGoodnoe Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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
Goodnoe3.0 miles10
Bates4.3 miles12
Towal6.6 miles10
Pleasant Valley8.2 miles10
Sundale8.9 miles12
Dot10.7 miles12
Roosevelt14.0 miles12
Cleveland16.6 miles11

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 Q97223501The 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 1510999. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.