Gordon, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the LaCrosse census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99143. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rattlesnake Canyon quadrangle.

Gordon within Whitman 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.

1950 USGS Benge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Benge quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Rattlesnake Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Connell quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gordon: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Willow Creek	Pumice	Occurrence
Camp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman 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
Pampa	3.8 miles	10
Hooper	6.7 miles	9
Jerita	7.3 miles	10
Hay	8.1 miles	10
La Crosse	8.2 miles	10
Shreck	8.5 miles	10
Riparia	13.2 miles	8
Sutton	13.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511000. 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.

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.