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Moore, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Stehekin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98852. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

Moore within Chelan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Moore between 1992 and 2018, burning about 86,980 acres in total. 34 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
Natural34
Recreation and ceremony7
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
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMEADOW CREEK
6 August 2007Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkCASTLE
5 August 2007Natural11,791 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDOMKE
5 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLUCERNE
21 August 1992Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forestnot named
13 August 2010Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkFOUR MILE
11 August 2013Natural15 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestRIDDLE CREEK
8 July 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestCASCADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Moore: 18 prospects, 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 2 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Blue JayCopper, Cobalt, Silver, GoldProspect
Dead FishUraniumOccurrence
Getty Antimony PropertyAntimonyProspect
King SolomonCopper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, ZincProspect
Little JapSilver, Copper, Antimony, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
MoscowCopper, Arsenic, Silver, GoldProspect
Muriel AnnGraphite, TitaniumProspect
NebraskaCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverProspect
Orphan Boy ProspectZinc, Silver, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, GoldOccurrenceGalena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Round MountainCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chelan 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
Lucerne2.6 miles18
Domke Lake Resort3.7 miles18
Stehekin5.6 miles14
Holden (historical)8.7 miles24
Trinity16.7 miles23
Telma29.0 miles17
Hollywood Beach30.1 miles13
Shrine Beach30.5 miles13

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 MooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995394The 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 1523349. 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.