Pysht, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clallam Bay-Neah Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98326. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pysht quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Pysht within Clallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1922 USGS Pysht quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Pysht quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pysht quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1963 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Pysht quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pysht between 1993 and 2006, burning about 7 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
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 February 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pysht: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Pysht Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Merrill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pysht Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pysht in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2009	Heavy Rain	Pysht	$4,000,000	Heavy rain caused some flooding and landslides, which damaged several roads and about a dozen homes. Along with the heavy rain, faulty drainage accounted for some flooding in Sekiu. The waterfront trail in Port Angeles was closed due to fallen trees and small landslides. A bridge in western Clallam County was washed out, stranding a few families. There were numerous other county roads impassible from flooding.

Every storm recorded in Clallam 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
Clallam Bay	8.5 miles	10
Twin	8.9 miles	16
Sekiu	10.8 miles	10
Bayview Recreational Vehicle Park	11.2 miles	10
Sappho	12.4 miles	11
Shadow	14.2 miles	15
Beaver	15.6 miles	11
Ovington	16.4 miles	15

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 Pysht	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7263814	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 1524729. 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.