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Hoh, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98331. It stands on Fossil Creek. The Survey maps it on the Destruction Island quadrangle.

Hoh within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hoh between 1995 and 2019, burning about 14 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 burning9
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILEPOST 167
4 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNDOWN ROAD
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOlympic National ParkTRAILSIX
24 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOH RIVER BEACH FIRE
16 August 1997Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hoh: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Ruby Beach PlacerGoldOccurrenceBeach Placer
Ruby Beach PlacerGoldOccurrence
Hoh 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 Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoh in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006Heavy RainHoh$5,500,000Olympic National Park received about 36 inches of rain from Nov 2nd through the 11th. That rainfall, plus help from some strong winds, caused damage to roads, bridges and trails. A 75 foot section of road, 25 feet deep, was washed away along with adjacent power lines.
January 2021FloodHoh$554,000Heavy rain caused surface runoff, landslides, and urban and small stream flooding. One to three inches of rain fell during the day.
November 2015FloodHoh$200,000Flooding from the Hoh river damaged Oil City road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Oil City1.0 miles12
Kalaloch10.1 miles9
Clearwater13.2 miles9
Queets15.0 miles9
Smith Place26.0 miles9
Duckabush78.4 miles17
Lackawanna Beach79.9 miles17
Brinnon80.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1509932. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.