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Lexington, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Longview-Kelso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98626. It stands on Ostrander Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kelso quadrangle.

Lexington within Cowlitz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning39
Recreation and ceremony19
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Other causes5
Fireworks5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILL STREET
4 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMT. BRYNION RD
28 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lexington: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Stone, Dimension. 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
Grady QuarryStonePast Producer
Mount 5640 QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
LongviewAluminumOccurrence
Section 4AluminumOccurrence
Corman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Headquarters Rd. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Memorial Park Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ostrander PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cowlitz River BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022HailLexington-Washington State Patrol reported all lanes of I5 closed around exit 42 due to traffic accidents attributed to hail accumulating on pavement. Three to five vehicles involved in accidents. There was one fatality and one injury. Note: Hail size estimated from other reports in the region.
January 2021FloodLexington-The Cowlitz River at Kelso rose above flood stage at 1315PST on the 13th, crested at 22.2 feet, then fell below flood stage 0100PST on the 14th. Flood stage is 21.5 feet.
November 2021FloodLexington-The Cowlitz River at Kelso (KELW1) rose above flood stage on the morning of the 11th, created at 21.5 feet around 2000PST on the 11th, then fell below flood stage on the morning of the 12th.

Every storm recorded in Cowlitz 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
Ostrander0.8 miles11
Rocky Point1.1 miles11
Beacon Hill1.2 miles11
Columbia Heights2.5 miles11
Pleasant Hill2.7 miles11
Longview Heights2.8 miles11
Kelso2.8 miles11
West Kelso3.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512388. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.