Pigeon Springs, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rose Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98625. It stands on Gobar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georges Peak quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Pigeon Springs within Cowlitz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Pigeon Springs quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Pigeon Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Georges Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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	16
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DAVIS PEAK
27 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEE CREEK
27 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PH FIRE
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIDDY POOL
12 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	NISQCAR
8 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BYPASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz 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
Ariel	7.2 miles	14
Woodland Park	9.0 miles	14
Rose Valley	11.2 miles	13
Woodland	12.1 miles	14
Kalama	12.1 miles	13
Carrolls	12.7 miles	13
Vision Acres	13.1 miles	13
Yale	13.5 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q17199065

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 1511228. 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.