Kalaloch, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98331. It stands on Kalaloch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Queets quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Kalaloch within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Destruction Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Queets quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Forks quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Kalaloch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony	62
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ALLEYWAY
1 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	KALALOCH#1
9 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	K.B.LOG #3
8 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	KLA BEACH #8
8 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	S.BEACH#1
8 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	KALALOCH#2
5 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BEACH ONE
5 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	KALALOCH#4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Kalaloch: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Queets River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Roberts Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clearwater	4.5 miles	9
Queets	5.0 miles	9
Hoh	10.1 miles	9
Oil City	10.4 miles	12
Smith Place	23.7 miles	9
Duckabush	76.4 miles	17
Lackawanna Beach	77.8 miles	17
Brinnon	78.3 miles	17

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 Kalaloch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962009	The 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 1521546. 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.