Hillside, 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 98433. It lies near Miller Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lewis quadrangle.

Hillside 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hillside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
9 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KETRON ISLAND
7 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HINKLEMAN RD
20 July 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	South Puget Sound Region-Department of Natural Resources	NISQUALLY
30 June 2019	Fireworks	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MADRONA BLUFF

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 Hillside: 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
Nisqually 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
Tillicum	1.8 miles	15
American Lake Garden Tract	2.6 miles	15
DuPont	2.8 miles	17
Lake City	3.4 miles	16
Eastward	3.7 miles	16
Ponders Corner	3.8 miles	16
Hillhurst	4.0 miles	15
Ketron	4.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512295. 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.