Port Hadlock, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Oak Bay-Port Ludlow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98339. It lies near Skunk Island. The Survey maps it on the Port Townsend South quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Port Hadlock within Jefferson County

On record in Port Hadlock

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Galster Houselisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
Methodist Epscopal Church of Port Hadlocklisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Hattie Williams Houselisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
Capt. Peter Shibles Houselisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Irondale Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1939 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Port Townsend South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Port Hadlock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK 14
2 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Port Hadlock: 14 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Iron. 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
Chimacum Valley	Iron	Prospect
Irondale	Diatomite	Occurrence
Chimacum Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crown Zellerbach Hadlock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Elkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hadlock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hastings Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hunt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Irondale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Puget Sound Surfacers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Irondale	1.0 miles	11
Chimacum	1.5 miles	11
Four Corners	3.5 miles	11
Nordland	3.8 miles	12
Marrowstone	3.9 miles	12
Adelma Beach	3.9 miles	11
Woodmans	4.1 miles	11
Tukey	4.7 miles	11

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 Q122569712

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 1520437. 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.