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Packwood, Washington

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Big Bottom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98361. It stands on Jonathan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Packwood quadrangle. 319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Packwood within Lewis County

On record in Packwood

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Packwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural13
Debris and open burning12
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestCOAL CREEK
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAINIER DRIVE
7 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestFLAT
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestVALLEY 8
6 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestSNIDER
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWAPIATI TRAIL
5 September 2007Smokingunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestJOHNSON
4 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestFLEA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Packwood: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Packwood SpringGeothermalProducer
Packwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Packwood Pit No. 96Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Warnke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Packwood in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006FloodPackwood2 killed, $8,800,000Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Cora8.0 miles23
Berry Patch12.3 miles12
Silver Brook13.4 miles23
Siler15.2 miles23
Vance (not official)15.5 miles23
Randle16.0 miles23
Cispus25.2 miles16
Glenoma26.7 miles16

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 PackwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473610The 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 1524132. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.