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Parker Landing Light, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98607. It stands on Lacamas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camas quadrangle.

Parker Landing Light within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Parker Landing Light between 1992 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 3 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 ceremony12
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTOREDAHL
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
16 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERBEND
8 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Parker Landing Light: 18 past producers, 9 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Iron. 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
(Facility) Troutdale SmelterAluminumPlant
Camas PlacerTitanium, Iron, GoldUnknown
ImageClayPast Producer
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
WashingtonGoldUnknown
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Washougal PitIronProducer
Washougal ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite
Haag & Shaw PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Oak Park0.4 miles24
Parkersville0.4 miles24
Camas1.1 miles24
Washougal1.6 miles24
Fern Prairie4.1 miles23
Sunnyside4.5 miles21
Ireland5.6 miles21
Fisher6.5 miles33

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 Q122560963The 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 1511214. 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.