Norwood, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Neilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98575. It stands on Haas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Quinault East quadrangle.

Norwood within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1921 USGS Quinault Lake quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Quinault Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Lake Quinault East 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 Norwood between 1992 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	GATTON CREEK SNAG
9 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	OPEN LAKE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SOUTH SHORE
17 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	HUCKLEBERRY
15 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	PILE FIRE
12 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	TOAD
12 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	CANOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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 Norwood: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Cesium, Stone, Manganese. 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
Chamberlain Quarry	Cesium	Past Producer
Chamberlain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Olympic Peninsula Mn Project # 301	Manganese	Prospect
State Pit Ps-H-128	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Quinault	2.5 miles	10
Amanda Park	4.5 miles	11
Neilton	6.6 miles	11
Weatherwax	12.7 miles	11
Grisdale	14.0 miles	11
Humptulips	19.5 miles	10
Axford	21.8 miles	10
Wishkah	25.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1529189. 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.