Pioneer, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tacoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98467. It stands on Chambers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steilacoom quadrangle.

Pioneer within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1940 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TIMBERLAKE
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KETRON ISLAND
20 July 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pioneer: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Meadow Park Pit & Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holroyd Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakewood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mcneil Island Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Steilacoom Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Steilacoom Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Sunset Beach	1.1 miles	16
Peach Acres	2.1 miles	16
Steilacoom	2.6 miles	16
Hope	2.6 miles	16
University Place	2.8 miles	16
Titlow	3.4 miles	16
Custer	3.4 miles	16
Clinton Park	3.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511231. 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.