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Peshastin, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cashmere census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98847. It lies near Anderson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Peshastin quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Peshastin within Chelan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Peshastin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,222 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 1 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
Natural33
Recreation and ceremony19
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBRISKY CANYON 2
9 September 2012Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersL7
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestPOSEY
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBRISKY CANYON
8 September 2012Natural40 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWILLIAMS
8 September 2012Natural1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJUDGE CANYON
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOUNDARY BUTTE
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBLAG MOUNTAIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Peshastin: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Asbestos, Silica. 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
Black RepublicanNiobium (Columbium), Cobalt, NickelUnknown
LeavenworthSilicaProspect
LeavenworthClayPast Producer
Leavenworth PlacerPlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Redmon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iclce CreekAsbestosProspect
Mill CreekAsbestosOccurrence
Leavenworth PlacerGoldOccurrence
Wednesday PlacerGoldPast Producer
Wenatchee River PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peshastin in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2009: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2009FloodPeshastin$1,100,000no account filed
November 2006FloodPeshastin-Heavy rain led to flooding on the Wenatchee River at Peshastin. The river crested at 15.0 feet at 8 pm on November 7th. Flood stage at this location is 13.0 feet. A lodge's lower rooms were flooded by the river.

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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
Dryden3.1 miles17
Leavenworth3.5 miles19
Cashmere7.9 miles13
Chumstick8.3 miles17
Blewett (historical)10.6 miles15
Chiwaukum10.8 miles17
Monitor11.4 miles14
Winton13.5 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on PeshastinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7171363The 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 1524346. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.