Mountain Top, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. It lies near Eckler Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Eckler Mountain quadrangle.

Mountain Top within Columbia 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.

1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Eckler Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Eckler Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Top between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52,735 acres in total. 39 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
Recreation and ceremony	43
Natural	39
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
7 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
6 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1995	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BMIDC INC 1062 TOUCHET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mountain Top: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Quarryy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Mountain Home Park	6.9 miles	14
Patit	8.2 miles	16
Covello	10.4 miles	14
Baileysburg	10.7 miles	14
Ronan	11.9 miles	14
Dayton	12.4 miles	14
Whetstone	12.6 miles	13
Turner	12.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511169. 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.