Lake Desire, Washington

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Seattle East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98058. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maple Valley quadrangle.

Lake Desire within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1949 USGS Maple Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Renton quadrangle1:25000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Maple Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lake Desire in 2008, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SQAUK STUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Lake Desire: 22 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cedar Mountain Property	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica	Prospect
Cedar Mountain Property	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica	Prospect
55 Sand Deposit	Silica	Past Producer
Cavanaugh	Silica	Past Producer
Wilde	Silica	Past Producer
Black River Quarry Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Elliott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Maple Valley Heights	1.8 miles	22
Cedar Mountain	2.2 miles	22
Elliott	2.6 miles	23
Cedar Grove	2.6 miles	22
Fairwood	2.6 miles	23
Maple Hills	3.1 miles	22
East Renton Highlands	3.4 miles	22
Maplewood Heights	3.4 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2413637. 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.