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Huntsville, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. It lies near Sorghum Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Huntsville quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Huntsville within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Huntsville in 2017, burning about 1,352 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,350 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeWHETSTONE RD
27 May 2017Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLEWIS AND CLARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Huntsville: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Barnes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mays PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waitsburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsville in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHuntsville-Limbs were pulled off from a tree with the largest limb 4 inches in diameter.
June 2012HailHuntsville-Nickel sized hail with a few larger were observed with strong wind.
April 1998HailHuntsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Varna1.3 miles10
Dumas2.4 miles10
Menoken3.0 miles10
McKay3.8 miles10
Long4.3 miles10
Alto6.8 miles10
Dayton7.6 miles14
Baileysburg8.2 miles14

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 HuntsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988979The 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 1512316. 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.