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Monroe Junction, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Monroe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98272. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Monroe Junction within Snohomish County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2

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 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTHE KING
10 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST KING LAKE
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE
1 September 2004Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVAN BROCKLIN RD.
7 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOLD PAINT
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCHAPEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Monroe Junction: 24 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Monroe PitClayProducer
Monroe QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Aaa Diorite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spec Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
SultanUraniumOccurrenceUnknown
SultanUraniumOccurrence
Builders Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Connelly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hewitt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joplin Paving Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Monroe0.5 miles19
Wagner2.1 miles16
Fryelands2.7 miles26
Woodruff2.7 miles26
High Rock3.2 miles19
Roosevelt3.6 miles26
Woods Creek3.7 miles16
Pearson Eddy4.8 miles19

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 Q122555589The 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 1523322. 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.