Marietta, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98225. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ferndale quadrangle.

Marietta within Whatcom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1907 USGS Blaine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Blaine quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 1994 and 2020, burning about 41 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
Recreation and ceremony	24
Debris and open burning	13
Fireworks	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COTTONWOOD
23 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STUART RD
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CORNWALL BEACH
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SQUALICUM PIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marietta: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Brennan Pit	Bentonite	Past Producer
Clarkson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Polinder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Lummi	1.8 miles	13
Brennan	2.6 miles	13
Alderwood	3.1 miles	13
Birchwood	3.7 miles	13
Ferndale	4.1 miles	13
Bellingham	5.2 miles	17
Parkview	5.3 miles	17
Washington Colony (historical)	5.7 miles	17

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 Q49356903

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 1512432. 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.