Novelty, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98014. It stands on Adair Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carnation quadrangle.

Novelty within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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 Sultan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1923 USGS Sultan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Carnation quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Skykomish River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Carnation quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Carnation quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Novelty between 1992 and 1994, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
17 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 May 1992	Smoking	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 King County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Novelty: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Issaquah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mountain View Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
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 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
Duvall	2.3 miles	18
Stuart	2.4 miles	18
Lake Marcel	3.5 miles	18
Stillwater	3.9 miles	18
Ames Lake	5.3 miles	18
Cottage Lake	5.5 miles	22
White	5.5 miles	22
Carnation	5.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511196. 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.