Pifer, Washington

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ritzville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99032. It lies near Harper Island. The Survey maps it on the Sprague Lake quadrangle.

Pifer within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Sprague Lake quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pifer: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit El	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Keystone	3.7 miles	8
Palm Lake	4.5 miles	8
Ashby	7.2 miles	8
Rockwell	8.4 miles	8
Tokio	10.3 miles	7
Emden	10.6 miles	7
Teske	13.0 miles	7
Carlmar	14.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511227. 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.

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.