Kerriston, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Tahoma-Maple Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98038. It lies near Brew Hill. The Survey maps it on the North Bend quadrangle. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Kerriston within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1913 USGS Cedar Lake quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Snoqualmie Pass quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kerriston between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RAGING RIVER
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WINERY
23 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EAST SIDE
20 July 2013	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	ECHO LAKE
12 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RAGING RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King 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 Kerriston: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Dimension, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Camp Brown Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Mainline 100 Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Preston Expanding Shale	Clay	Occurrence
Stoen North Bend Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Taylor	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
City of Seattle Road 10 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City of Seattle Road 50 Main Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
North Bend Pit - Div. 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harman Heights	3.6 miles	14
Bagley Junction	4.3 miles	14
Upper Preston	4.4 miles	18
Barneston	4.6 miles	14
North Bend	4.7 miles	14
Cedar Falls	4.7 miles	14
Snoose Junction	4.8 miles	14
Snoqualmie	5.4 miles	18

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 Kerriston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995380	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 1521630. 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.