Lopez, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Lopez census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98261. The Survey maps it on the Shaw Island quadrangle. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Lopez within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1943 USGS Orcas Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Orcas Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1973 USGS Shaw Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Lopez between 1992 and 2017, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Fireworks	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JACKSON
16 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 1998	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LOPEZ HILL
3 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lopez: 9 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Humphrey Head Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Yansen Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Erismann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Friday Harbor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Redi-Mix Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shoal Bay Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed [Ot	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Port Stanley	2.5 miles	13
Shaw Island	4.2 miles	11
Richardson	5.1 miles	12
Decatur	5.3 miles	13
Orcas	5.4 miles	11
Friday Harbor	5.5 miles	10
Thatcher	5.5 miles	13
Argyle	5.6 miles	10

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 Q2834801

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 1511107. 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.