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Liberty, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It lies near Lion Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. It stands 2,674 feet above sea level.

Liberty within Kittitas County

On record in Liberty

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

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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44,301 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 2 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
Natural37
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDEER GULCH 3
9 September 2012Natural2.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestROBINSON GULCH
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLOWER 1ST CREEK
9 September 2012Natural1.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestUPPER FIRST CREEK
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLION ROCK
9 September 2012Natural1.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBOULDER CREEK
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestSNOWSHOE #1
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestSNOWSHOE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 37 past producers, 30 occurrences, 14 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Flagstone. 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
Golden FleeceGold, SilverOccurrenceGold
LibertyGemstoneOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black DiamondFlagstonePast Producer
BurchamStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Francis Virdin ParkSilver, GoldOccurrenceGold
Lion GulchFlagstonePast Producer
Sonny Brown ProspectSilver, GoldOccurrenceGold
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cedar Creek PlacerGold, SilverPast Producer1918

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flood. 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 2011FloodLiberty$4,000,000Flood waters damaged or closed 22 roads along Manastash, Taneum, Cooke, Coleman, Wilson, and Caribou Creeks. Bridges and irrigation systems were also impacted.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lauderdale Junction4.2 miles15
Bristol10.3 miles17
Horlick10.6 miles17
Dutch Settlement11.0 miles15
Teanaway11.6 miles17
Thorp12.8 miles14
Cle Elum15.1 miles16
South Cle Elum15.7 miles16

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 LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461503The 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 1522052. 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.