Levering, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kittitas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98950. It stands on Hanson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Levering within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1912 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Levering between 2003 and 2019, burning about 43,202 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Natural	1
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
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6,262 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LOWER CRAB CREEK
16 August 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	Spokane District	SENTINEL
6 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	68 acres	Spokane District	HWY 243
5 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.5 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY
24 July 2019	Natural	124 acres	Spokane District	SADDLE MOUNTAIN
20 July 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	120 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY
20 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24,650 acres	Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources	400
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	7,728 acres	Spokane District	POWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Levering: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
	Beverly	Pumice	Past Producer
	Sentinel Bluff	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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
Beverly Junction	3.6 miles	16
Doris	6.6 miles	11
Rye	10.5 miles	11
Vantage	11.5 miles	18
Cheviot	13.9 miles	12
Boylston	17.3 miles	12
Scammon Landing	18.2 miles	9
Renslow	22.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511097. 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.