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Husum, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the White Salmon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98623. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Husum quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Husum within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Husum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,866 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
Debris and open burning74
Recreation and ceremony38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural12
Fireworks10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Other causes6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLYON
9 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Natural3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTAG
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUGGIE
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING CREEK
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,644 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

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

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Husum in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. 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 2024HailHusum-A Washington fire weather employee and a member of the public on Facebook both reported hail size of around 1 inch near the town of Trout Lake.

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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
B Z Corner3.7 miles15
Mountain Brook4.0 miles15
Laws Corner4.5 miles15
White Salmon4.9 miles15
Gilmer5.1 miles15
Bingen5.9 miles15
Snowden7.4 miles15
Straight Point8.5 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 HusumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5950061The 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 1521099. 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.