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Ohop Bob, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Eatonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98328. The Survey maps it on the Eatonville quadrangle.

Ohop Bob within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Ohop Bob between 1992 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPACKWOOD
9 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSCOTT
9 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2018Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters58TH AVE CT E
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRINGWATER EAST
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Ohop Bob: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
La GrandeFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Lynch Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MashelCopperPast Producer
Eatonville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pack Forest PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
La Grande2.8 miles19
Eatonville3.8 miles19
Eatonville Junction4.1 miles18
Leber5.3 miles18
Alder5.6 miles19
Clay City5.7 miles18
New Reliance5.7 miles19
Surprise Valley6.9 miles15

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122571699The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1530546. 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.