Hanson Ferry, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Asotin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99401. It lies near Corral Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Hanson Ferry within Asotin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Saddle Butte quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Saddle Butte quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Hanson Ferry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 616 acres in total. 31 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
Natural	31
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BMIDC INC 857 - COUGAR CONFL
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	DONUT HOLE
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
1 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	WENATCHEE CREEK
8 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Asotin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hanson Ferry: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fleser Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Asotin 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
Mountain View	1.0 miles	12
Grouse	4.7 miles	12
Anatone	13.1 miles	12
Theon (historical)	15.5 miles	10
Cloverland	16.1 miles	12
Craige	18.1 miles	10
Zindel (historical)	18.9 miles	10
Rogersburg	19.2 miles	10

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 Q27995374

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 1514673. 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.