Parrott Crossing, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1970. It stands in the South Yakima census division. It stands on Bacon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle.

Parrott Crossing within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1904 USGS Mount Adams quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1907 USGS Mount Adams quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Parrott Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 8 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
Natural	29
Recreation and ceremony	20
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BACON
4 September 2006	Natural	94 acres	Yakama Agency	JUNGLE BUTTE
3 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOWER 2
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	LANDING 2807
8 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yakama Agency	GAUGE STATION
6 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Yakima 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
Willy Dick Crossing	24.4 miles	12
White Swan	35.3 miles	13
Tampico	37.9 miles	14
Silver Beach	39.1 miles	19
Rupple	40.4 miles	13
Rimrock	41.1 miles	19
Brownstown	41.5 miles	13
Harrah	44.3 miles	13

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 Q122553338

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 1524223. 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.