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Kid Valley, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Northeast Cowlitz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98649. The Survey maps it on the Toutle Mountain quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Kid Valley within Cowlitz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Kid Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning22
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHINKLEMAN ROAD
3 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH TOUTLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kid Valley: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Mercury, 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
Gardner QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green RiverMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
J.E. Brown/Weyerhaeuser Co. Prop.AluminumOccurrence
Spirit Lake Road ClayClayOccurrence
502 Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Toutle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz 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
Saint Helens5.2 miles12
Sightly6.9 miles12
Toutle7.0 miles12
Silver Lake11.4 miles11
Headquarters12.6 miles12
Harrington Place13.9 miles16
Castle Rock16.7 miles11
Olequa17.0 miles11

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 Kid ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199007The 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 1521651. 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.