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Lankner, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Malone-Porter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98568. It lies near Ford Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Malone quadrangle.

Lankner within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Lankner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPacific Cascade Region-DNRWILLIAMS CREEK
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNOBODYS HOME
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOAKVILLE
22 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH BANK
17 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersD-LINE BRIDGE INCIDENT
12 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lankner: 11 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bert Sutton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Porter1.8 miles15
Rony2.6 miles15
Malone3.2 miles15
Cedarville4.4 miles15
Saginaw5.3 miles15
Greenwood5.4 miles15
South Elma6.7 miles15
Oakville6.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122598593The 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 1511088. 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.