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Kangley, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98051. It lies near Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cumberland quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Kangley within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Kangley between 1993 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKUZAK RD
29 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLITTLE SALMON
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters31400 COURTNEY RD
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH GREEN
31 July 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREEN RIVER CAMPFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Kangley: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Arsenic, Clay. 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
Franklin ArsenicArsenic, SilverProspect
Franklin Silica SandSilicaProspect
Royal Reward MineMercury, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1875, 1957
Byrd ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Cardinal Reward MineMercury, ArsenicOccurrence1958
Durham Hi-Alumina Clay DepositAluminumProspect
Elk PitClayPast Producer
Kanaskat Hi-Alumina Clay DepositAluminumProspect
Kangley Hi-Alumina Clay DepositAluminumProspect
Palmer PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kangley in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008HailKangley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in King 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
Selleck1.1 miles14
Durham1.7 miles13
Barneston2.0 miles14
Kanaskat Junction2.1 miles13
Bagley Junction2.8 miles14
Kanaskat2.9 miles13
Trude3.1 miles13
Palmer3.3 miles13

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 KangleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475404The 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 1521565. 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.