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Jared, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Newport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99119. It stands on Gardiner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jared quadrangle. It stands 2,066 feet above sea level.

Jared within Pend Oreille 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Jared between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 39 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
Natural39
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBABBITZ FENCE
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILL CREEK CAMPFIRE
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRUBY RETURN
20 September 2015Smokingunder an acreColville National ForestPARKER
18 September 1999Smoking1.5 acresColville National ForestGARDINER
14 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pend Oreille County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Jared: 6 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper. 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
BlueslideTinOccurrence
Granite Peak BerylBeryllium, UraniumPast Producer
Jared QuarryDolomite, MagnesitePast Producer
Metaline DistrictZinc, LeadOccurrence
PinnelAntimonyOccurrenceStibnite
Reynolds CreekCopper, IronProspect
Riverview MineTungstenOccurrence
Silver King GroupGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperProspect
UskCalciumOccurrence
RubyUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pend Oreille County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jared in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 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
April 2018FloodJared$1,000Flooding across the road closed a quarter mile stretch of State Highway 20 near Cusick.
June 2012HailJared-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pend Oreille 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
Locke2.9 miles13
Ruby3.8 miles12
Blueslide6.2 miles12
Calispell8.7 miles15
Cusick9.1 miles15
Lost Creek10.0 miles12
Diamond City10.3 miles12
Usk10.9 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 JaredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988983The 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 1521330. 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.