Powers, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Starbuck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99359. It lies near Choke Cherry Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Starbuck West quadrangle.

Powers within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1948 USGS Starbuck quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Starbuck quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Starbuck West quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Connell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Powers in 2016, burning about 11,548 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9,168 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	FLETCHER ROAD
17 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,380 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	STARBUCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Powers: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lyons Ferry	Pumice	Occurrence
Starbuck	Pumice	Occurrence
Grange City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Starbuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Starbuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Grange City (historical)	1.7 miles	8
Starbuck	1.8 miles	8
Relief	6.8 miles	10
Delaney	9.8 miles	10
Alto	10.7 miles	10
Tucannon	10.7 miles	13
Jackson	12.7 miles	10
Wild Goose (historical)	12.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511240. 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.