Newhalem, Washington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

• Copper Mountain Fire Lookoutlisted 1989
• Devil's Corner Cliff Walklisted 1974
• Diablo Hydroelectric Power Plantlisted 1989
• Gorge Hydroelectric Power Plantslisted 1989
• Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projectslisted 1996
• Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects (Boundary Increase)listed 2011

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.

• 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Diablo Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Newhalem between 1998 and 2019, burning about 7,203 acres in total. 18 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Diablo
• Barron
• Cedar Crossing
• Ruby (historical)

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Newhalem: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1523641. 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.