Paradise Hill, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Brewster-Wakefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98812. The Survey maps it on the Knowlton Knob quadrangle.

Paradise Hill within Okanogan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1905 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Brewster quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Omak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Knowlton Knob quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Knowlton Knob quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Hill between 1993 and 2016, burning about 5,999 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	39
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	BENSON CREEK
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LEECHER MEADOW
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTHSTAR
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	GAMBLE'S MILL
4 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	INDIAN DAN CANYON
2 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	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 Okanogan 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
Methow	7.4 miles	13
Thompson (historical)	7.9 miles	12
Olema	8.1 miles	12
Brewster	8.3 miles	12
Virginia City (historical)	8.6 miles	12
Ophir	9.0 miles	12
Wakefield	9.3 miles	12
Pateros	9.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1528572. 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.