Kruse, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98271. It stands on Middle Fork Quilceda Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marysville quadrangle.

Kruse within Snohomish County

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.

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

Fires near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kruse between 1993 and 2019, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	FREEWAY
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	22 DRIVE
4 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CANYON DR
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	112TH ST
10 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POPEYES CORNER
29 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Puget Sound Agency	DIRT PIT
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COYOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kruse: 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Arlington Pit and Plant	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Arlanco Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Kruse Junction	0.4 miles	17
North Marysville	1.4 miles	17
Stimson Crossing	1.6 miles	17
Sisco	2.8 miles	19
Marysville	3.3 miles	17
Smokey Point	3.6 miles	19
John Sam Lake	3.8 miles	17
Lakewood	4.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1506027. 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.