Lake Bay, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Key Peninsula-Anderson Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98349. It sits by South Head. The Survey maps it on the Fox Island quadrangle.

Lake Bay within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1942 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Sylvan quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lake Bay between 1992 and 2003, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 June 1992	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake Bay: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Lakebay	1.1 miles	13
Home	2.1 miles	13
Longbranch	3.1 miles	15
Meridian	3.1 miles	16
Forest Beach	3.9 miles	14
Herron	4.2 miles	13
Gertrude	4.5 miles	16
Arletta	4.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514788. 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.