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Pomona, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Northeast Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98901. It stands on Wenas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pomona quadrangle. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Pomona within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pomona between 1992 and 2015, burning about 721 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
28 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 August 1997Recreation and ceremony223 acresSpokane DistrictCANYON #1
1 August 2015Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresSpokane DistrictSUNDOWN
9 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreSpokane DistrictROZA
28 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSpokane DistrictBURBANK CR
23 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresSpokane DistrictYAKIMA RIVER
23 July 2002Arson/incendiarism30 acresSpokane DistrictLOST SPR
10 July 2007Recreation and ceremony220 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBUFFALO ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pomona: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
SelahSilicaOccurrence
Selah TunnelDiatomiteOccurrence
State QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Selah No. 1PumiceOccurrence
Selah No. 2PumiceOccurrence
WenasPumiceOccurrence
Bruenig PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Selah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomona in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 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
May 2011FloodPomona-The Yakima River at Umtanum crested at 36.5 feet on May 16th, which was 1 foot above flood stage. At Parker the crest was 13.2 feet on May 16th, which was 3.2 feet above flood stage. Reported rainfall amounts on May 14-15 were between 3 and 4 inches.
January 2009FloodPomona-The Yakima River rose to 2.8 feet above flood stage at Umtanum.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
East Selah1.8 miles15
Pomona Heights2.3 miles15
Selah3.4 miles16
Fruitvale6.1 miles17
Yakima6.2 miles17
Terrace Heights6.3 miles14
Brace6.4 miles16
Washington Park6.5 miles14

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 PomonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7227374The 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 1511235. 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.