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Molson, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Oroville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98844. It stands on Molson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Molson quadrangle. It stands 3,704 feet above sea level.

Molson within Okanogan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Molson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNINE MILE
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELK KNUCKLE
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800
11 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRISE ROAD
5 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSIDLEY
15 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALLARD EAST
11 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNINE STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Molson: 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Arsenic, Antimony, Antimony, Lead. 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
Carlquist PropertyAntimony, Lead, ArsenicOccurrenceVein
Lost LakeUranium, Silver, GoldUnknown
OlentangyGold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, Zinc, ArsenicOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Poland ChinaLead, GoldPast ProducerVein
Poland ChinaGold, Silver, LeadUnknown
Poland China MineGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerVein
CarlquistAntimony, ArsenicOccurrenceBoulangerite, Stibnite
CarquistAntimonyOccurrence
AndrussGoldUnknown
Cuba Line PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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
Chesaw8.3 miles12
Havillah10.6 miles12
Oroville12.8 miles15
Cordell13.7 miles13
Ellisforde16.9 miles13
Bodie19.1 miles12
Wauconda20.2 miles13
Enterprise20.3 miles11

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 MolsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474725The 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 1523307. 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.