Pearson, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Poulsbo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98370. It stands on Bjorgen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Poulsbo quadrangle.

Pearson within Kitsap 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.

1937 USGS Port Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Poulsbo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pearson between 1992 and 2002, burning about 7 acres in total. 2 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	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	PETER
5 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 1992	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Puget Sound Agency	AGATE PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Pearson: 20 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Albright Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Danielson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Midway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Riley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sicard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap 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
Virginia	0.5 miles	13
Scandia	0.8 miles	13
Lemolo	1.2 miles	15
Keyport	1.4 miles	15
Poulsbo	1.7 miles	13
Lincoln	2.5 miles	15
Central Valley	3.4 miles	13
Brownsville	4.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511220. 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.