Oakland, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tacoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98409. The Survey maps it on the Tacoma South quadrangle.

Oakland within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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
1941 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1961 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Tacoma South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 2002 and 2008, 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TIMBERLAKE
6 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPILLMAN
18 April 2002	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 Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Oakland: 18 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Copper, Nickel, 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
(Facility) Asarco Refinery	Copper, Nickel, Arsenic	Plant
Meadow Park Pit & Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holroyd Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakewood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Fircrest	1.5 miles	16
South Tacoma	1.8 miles	26
Manitou	2.3 miles	26
Excelsior	2.6 miles	26
Tacoma	2.8 miles	24
Cebalop (historical)	3.1 miles	24
University Place	3.3 miles	16
Old Tacoma	3.3 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512522. 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.