Le Grow, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Eureka Flat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99323. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle.

Le Grow within Walla Walla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1915 USGS Wallulah quadrangle1:96000
1918 USGS Wallula quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Slater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Slater quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Le Grow between 2001 and 2015, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	IVERSON ROAD
24 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	DODD 2
24 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	DODD 1
13 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	MCNARY RIDGE 1
13 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	MCNARY RIDGE 2
13 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	MCNARY RIDGE 3
10 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	HUMORUNIT2
28 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	RAILROAD 37

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla 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
Slater	1.6 miles	12
Humorist	5.2 miles	12
Ash	5.6 miles	11
Welland	5.9 miles	11
Two Rivers	6.3 miles	12
Attalia	6.5 miles	12
Zangar Junction	6.8 miles	13
Wallula	7.2 miles	12

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 Q122545413

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 1513381. 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.