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High Point, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Issaquah Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98027. It lies near Grand Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Fall City quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

High Point within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of High Point between 1996 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAGING RIVER
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSQUAK MOUNTAIN
15 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMITCHELL HILL
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSQAUK STUMP
11 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of High Point: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Harris Clay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Harris PitClayPast Producer
Raging River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sunset QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chisholm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hjort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Issaquah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Issaquah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Preston2.8 miles18
Issaquah2.9 miles23
Upper Preston4.2 miles18
Pine Lake4.8 miles23
Mirrormont5.0 miles13
Fall City5.3 miles18
High Valley5.6 miles22
Mirrormount Estates5.9 miles22

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 High PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988974The 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 1520785. 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.