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Hazard, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deer Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99006. It lies near Wild Rose Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Hazard within Spokane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Hazard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 3 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 burning76
Recreation and ceremony42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural25
Equipment and vehicle use14
Fireworks10
Other causes10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH SWENSON
8 September 2008Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWALBRIDGE FINALE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMONROE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOWENS LUMBER
7 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDALTON
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAILROAD MYSTERY
30 September 1994Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane 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 Hazard: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Mica, Quartz. 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
DenisonMica, QuartzOccurrence
Stevens County Rd DeptStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hazard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane 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
Denison4.8 miles13
Deer Park5.7 miles13
Hamann Corner5.9 miles14
T Bridge Corner7.0 miles13
Nine Mile Falls7.2 miles9
Buckeye8.0 miles15
Dartford8.4 miles14
Chattaroy8.6 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on HazardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988970The 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 1514873. 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.