Pacific City, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98624. It lies near Ruby Island. The Survey maps it on the Cape Disappointment quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pacific City within Pacific County

On record in Pacific City

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Cape Disappointment Historic Districtlisted 1975 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1938 USGS Cape Disappointment quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Cape Disappointment quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Ilwaco quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Pacific City (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 58 acres 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	8
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	27 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SOUTH JETTY
29 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LOOP RD
25 August 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pacific City (historical): 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal. 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	Recorded
Beards Hollow Placer	Iron, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Beards Hollow Placer	Platinum, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Fort Canby	Gold, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Fort Canby Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Sand Island Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium	Occurrence
O'Meara Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fender	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Nahcotta Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific 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
Fort Canby	0.1 miles	11
Ilwaco	1.9 miles	11
Oceanview	2.6 miles	11
Holman	3.0 miles	11
Seaview	3.5 miles	11
Stringtown	4.3 miles	17
Moores Corner	4.4 miles	11
Long Beach	4.7 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Pacific City (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995397	The 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 1514880. 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.