Hillhurst, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Fort Lewis-DuPont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98580. It lies near Briggs Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lewis quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Hillhurst within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1940 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Fort Lewis quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Fort Lewis quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Fort Lewis quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hillhurst between 1993 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HINKLEMAN RD
31 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROY Y
27 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FRIENDLY GROVE
14 May 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 March 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex	SOUTH NISQUALLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Hillhurst: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Roy	Diatomite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
American Lake Garden Tract	2.9 miles	15
Tillicum	3.7 miles	15
Ponders Corner	3.9 miles	16
Hillside	4.0 miles	15
Spanaway	4.0 miles	26
Lake City	4.9 miles	16
Lakeview	5.0 miles	26
Interlaken	5.1 miles	16

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 Hillhurst	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995376	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 1511035. 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.