Paradise, Washington

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 7 records

• Camp Muirlisted 1991
• Christine Falls Bridgelisted 1991
• Edith Creek Chlorination Houselisted 1991
• Indian Bar Trail Shelterlisted 1991
• Narada Falls Bridgelisted 1991
• Narada Falls Comfort Stationlisted 1991
• Paradise Historic Districtlisted 1991

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.

• 1924 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1924 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:96000
• 1928 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Mt Rainier East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Mount Rainier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Paradise between 1992 and 2018, burning about 27 acres in total. 26 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Nisqually Vista
• Longmire

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Paradise: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Pierce County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1533605. 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.