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Horlick, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Manastash Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It lies near Morrison Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Teanaway quadrangle. It stands 1,768 feet above sea level.

Horlick within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Horlick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,110 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony31
Debris and open burning15
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Other causes3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSESHOE CANYON
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWENDY'S
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLOOM PLACE
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORRISON CANYON 2
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORRISON CANYON
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined167 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAYWARD FIRING RANGE
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOPING ROAD
5 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas 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 Horlick: 11 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. 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
Unnamed PitStonePast Producer
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Virden LocalityGemstoneProspect
Adams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cooper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dubinsky QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ballard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ellensburg Cement PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horlick in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodHorlick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Bristol1.2 miles17
Teanaway4.9 miles17
Lauderdale Junction6.4 miles15
Thorp7.4 miles14
Cle Elum9.3 miles16
South Cle Elum9.5 miles16
Liberty10.6 miles15
Roslyn12.8 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q27988977The 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 1520916. 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.