Patit, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. It stands on North Patit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cahill Mountain quadrangle.

Patit within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Cahill Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Cahill Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Cahill Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Cahill Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Patit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 9 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Umatilla National Forest	not named
20 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	7.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WHEAT
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Columbia County Fire Districts	INC 994
2 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources	PIONEER PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Patit: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Patit Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Covello	3.6 miles	14
Ronan	3.9 miles	14
Whetstone	4.4 miles	13
Turner	5.3 miles	14
Baileysburg	5.6 miles	14
Dayton	6.0 miles	14
Mountain Home Park	7.0 miles	14
Mountain Top	8.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511217. 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.