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Longmire, Washington

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mount Rainier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98304. It stands on Longmire Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Wahpenayo Peak quadrangle. It stands 2,746 feet above sea level.

Longmire within Pierce County

On record in Longmire

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Longmire between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 18 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
Recreation and ceremony20
Natural18
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkNISQUALLY FIRE
10 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresGifford Pinchot National ForestBERRY CREEK
9 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestBERRY CREEK
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkVISTA
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMAZAMA
28 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National Forest750
28 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestBERRY CREEK
27 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkB23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Longmire: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. 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
Eagle PeakTungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Eagle PeakCopper, Uranium, Silver, Gold, CobaltPast Producer
Eagle Peak MineCopper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum, Uranium, ArsenicPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Longmire Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Paradise ProspectCopper, ArsenicPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
ParadiseCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Nisqually Vista4.3 miles21
Paradise4.8 miles21
Ashford11.6 miles15
National12.9 miles15
Sunrise14.5 miles21
Park Junction17.4 miles15
Elbe20.2 miles15
Upper Fairfax20.3 miles26

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 LongmireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3259130The 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 1522415. 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.