Mountain Brook, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the White Salmon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98672. The Survey maps it on the Husum quadrangle.

Mountain Brook within Klickitat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1934 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Husum quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Husum quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Husum quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Brook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. 11 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
Debris and open burning	59
Recreation and ceremony	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	4
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LYON
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RIVER VISTA
9 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1998	Other causes	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT BERG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Brook: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Appleton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat 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
Laws Corner	2.7 miles	15
Husum	4.0 miles	15
Snowden	4.2 miles	15
Klickitat Heights	4.7 miles	15
White Salmon	5.9 miles	15
Bingen	5.9 miles	15
Gilmer	6.2 miles	15
Straight Point	6.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1529975. 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.