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Maytown, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Thurston South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98512. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maytown quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Maytown within Thurston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Maytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 615 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning47
Recreation and ceremony18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Fireworks7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined268 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMIMA ROAD
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEBSTER
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAYTOWN REST STOP
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Maytown: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Army QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Western QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Capital Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Case Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crescent Well PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jones Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Rock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maytown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tumwater Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
South Union3.7 miles21
Littlerock4.0 miles14
Sunnydale4.4 miles20
Plumb5.1 miles21
Chaenn Hill5.3 miles21
Tenino5.6 miles21
Belmore6.3 miles21
Offutt Lake6.3 miles21

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 MaytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888582The 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 1533530. 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.