Lakebay, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Key Peninsula-Anderson Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98349. The Survey maps it on the Vaughn quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Lakebay within Pierce County

On record in Lakebay

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

Longbranch School Gymnasiumlisted 1987

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Allyn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lakebay between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MCMICKEN
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 Lakebay: 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
Lake Bay	1.1 miles	14
Home	1.3 miles	13
Herron	3.1 miles	13
Longbranch	3.3 miles	15
Meridian	3.9 miles	16
Forest Beach	4.5 miles	14
Arletta	5.3 miles	14
Sunrise Beach	5.6 miles	14

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 Lakebay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6478698	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 1513142. 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.