Knappton, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Naselle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98638. It lies near Bear Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Knappton quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Knappton within Pacific County

On record in Knappton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Columbia River Quarantine Stationlisted 1980

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1938 USGS Fort Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Fort Columbia quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Knappton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Astoria quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Knappton between 1993 and 2003, burning about 108 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
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
4 July 2003	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 March 1993	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 October 1998	Debris and open burning	102 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Knappton: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium, Limestone, General. 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
Chinook Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Knappton	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Mc Gowan Placer	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium	Prospect
Megler	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pacific 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
Megler	2.9 miles	17
Frankfort	3.1 miles	17
McGowan	5.3 miles	18
Naselle	6.1 miles	17
Upper Salmon Junction	6.8 miles	16
Chinook	6.9 miles	17
Stringtown	8.9 miles	17
Ilwaco	12.3 miles	11

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 Knappton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995381	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 1511076. 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.