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Home Valley, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 97014. It lies near Wind Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Home Valley within Skamania County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Home Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,733 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Debris and open burning15
Natural13
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes4
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 September 1996Smokingunder an acreThe Dalles UnitLINDSEY
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestNORTH LAKE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOLD STATE RD
6 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaOLD WYETH
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH RANGE
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSECTION 28

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Home Valley: 11 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Diatomite. 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
St. Martin Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
StevensonDiatomiteOccurrence
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Island Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fountain SlideSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fountain SlideSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Skamania 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
Saint Martins Hot Springs2.3 miles13
Carson2.9 miles13
Stevenson5.7 miles14
Cook6.2 miles16
Mill A7.8 miles15
Fort Rains8.2 miles14
Ericson View Tracts9.6 miles17
Willard9.6 miles15

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 Home ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988976The 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 1512308. 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.