Kruse Junction, Washington

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.

• 1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Kruse Junction between 1993 and 2019, burning about 26 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kruse
• Marysville
• Shaker Church
• Stimson Crossing
• Cathan
• John Sam Lake

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kruse Junction: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511079. 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.