Piedmont, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Crescent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98363. It stands on June Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Crescent quadrangle. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Piedmont within Clallam County

On record in Piedmont

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Wendel Propertylisted 2007 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1918 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500
1922 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Crescent quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Port Angeles quadrangle1:100000

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 Piedmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 ceremony	30
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	8TH SWITCHBACK
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Olympic National Park	L.C.101LOG
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISHER COVE FIRE
21 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LYRE RIVER CAMPGROUND
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Olympic National Park	AARRGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Piedmont: 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Manganese, Antimony, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Bright Angel	Tin, Manganese, Antimony	Past Producer	1941
Cedar Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beans	Manganese	Occurrence
Bright Angel	Manganese	Past Producer
Christopher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fielding Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fir	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Hemlock Claim	Manganese	Prospect	1956
Hillstead Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Crescent	0.8 miles	15
Disque	3.3 miles	15
Ovington	4.1 miles	15
Joyce	4.2 miles	12
Maple Grove	4.7 miles	14
Snug Harbor	4.9 miles	14
Shadow	5.1 miles	15
Port Crescent	5.7 miles	12

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 Piedmont	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474367	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 1524409. 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.