Nancy, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hanford Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98944. The Survey maps it on the Coyote Rapids quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Nancy within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1916 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nancy between 1993 and 2017, burning about 15,142 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	POWERLINE2
6 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	SPARKY
31 July 2001	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	RRLOOP
31 July 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	POWERLINE
23 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	WAHLUKE
2 July 1998	Natural	506 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	HWY24ESW
13 July 2012	Natural	190 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	COYOTE RAPIDS
3 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	MOWER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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
Bettie	2.3 miles	13
Helen	3.2 miles	13
Wahluke	3.4 miles	13
Audrey	3.5 miles	13
Ginger	3.6 miles	13
White Bluffs	4.5 miles	12
Pearl	5.5 miles	13
Susie	5.8 miles	13

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 Q14713840

The 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 1511175. 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.