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Grahams, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Newport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99156. It lies near Lone Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Camden quadrangle.

Grahams within Pend Oreille 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.

Fires near this place

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Grahams between 1992 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 7 were 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 burning60
Recreation and ceremony27
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Other causes4
Fireworks2

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 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDIAMOND RHYME
6 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBUNGE LINE
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELOODING BRAKES
30 September 2018Debris and open burning4.4 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPHAY
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRAY
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTELEPHONE
25 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pend Oreille County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Grahams: 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Lead. 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
Lead Metal ProspectIron, Lead, ZincOccurrenceReplacement
ReidtCopper, GoldOccurrence
SunriseGold, SilverProspect
GrahamUraniumProspect
LloydLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProspect
Mount PisgahLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperUnknown
StapletonUraniumProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pend Oreille 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
Scotia1.4 miles13
Diamond Lake2.5 miles13
Camden4.7 miles13
Penrith5.7 miles13
Tweedie6.7 miles12
Newport9.1 miles13
Deer Valley9.2 miles13
Wolfred9.4 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 Q122572495The 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 1511007. 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.