Nesika, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mossyrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98564. It lies near Steel Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Winters Mountain quadrangle.

Nesika within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1919 USGS Mount St Helens quadrangle1:125000
1919 USGS Mt St Helens quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1919 USGS Mt St. Helens quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Elk Rock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Winters Mtn quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nesika between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 July 2003	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WINTERS MOUNTAIN #1
4 May 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nesika: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Morton A and B	Silica	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Alta Vista	4.7 miles	14
Riffe (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Kosmos (historical)	5.6 miles	15
Swofford	5.7 miles	16
Morton	5.9 miles	16
Glenoma	7.4 miles	16
Ajlune	8.2 miles	16
Cispus	8.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1523624. 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.