Prairie Center, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Central Whidbey Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98239. It lies near Ebeys Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Coupeville quadrangle.

Prairie Center within Island County

On record in Prairie Center

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 2 records

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

Central Whidbey Island Historic Districtlisted 1973 · 0.6 miles away
Colonel Granville & Henrietta Haller Houselisted 2022 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Coupeville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Coupeville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Center between 1992 and 2018, burning about 55 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	21
Fireworks	11
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2010	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EBEY'S BLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Island County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Center: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Coupeville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Good Beach Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harrington Lagoon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Island County Road Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Keystone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Libbey-Didco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Penn Cove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prairie Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Island 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
Dean Manor	0.7 miles	10
Coupeville	0.8 miles	10
Sunset Terrace	0.8 miles	10
Captains Choice	1.3 miles	10
Ebeys Landing	1.6 miles	10
Port Arthur (historical)	1.7 miles	10
Penn Cove Park	2.3 miles	10
San de Fuca	2.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1507614. 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.