Ponderosa Estates, Washington

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.

• 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1942 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Lake Tapps quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bonney Lake
• Cedar View
• Prairie Ridge
• Rhododendron Park
• Cascade Junction
• Croker

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ponderosa Estates: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Pierce County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514379. 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.