Newaukum, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98092. It lies near Muckleshoot Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Black Diamond quadrangle.

Newaukum within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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.

1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1949 USGS Black Diamond quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:25000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Newaukum between 1992 and 2015, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
2 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	G.R.C.C.
3 August 1997	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	STARR
27 July 1994	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 July 1994	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 July 1994	Fireworks	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	FIREWORK
19 June 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	THE PRESIDENT
15 April 1999	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Newaukum: 9 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Arsenic. 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
Dobroff	Iron	Occurrence
Green River	Arsenic	Prospect
Kummer Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Auburn Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Covington Pit - Iddings Farm Svce	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Diamond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Meade Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Terry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Green River	2.3 miles	24
Wabash	2.5 miles	29
Wynaco	4.5 miles	23
Kummer	4.7 miles	24
Lake Morton	4.8 miles	24
One Hundred One Pines	5.0 miles	24
Osceola	5.5 miles	29
Morganville	5.7 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511181. 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.