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Quinault, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Neilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98575. It stands on Falls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Quinault East quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Quinault within Grays Harbor County

On record in Quinault

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Quinault between 1993 and 2014, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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 burning5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOlympic National ForestGATTON CREEK SNAG
14 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOlympic National Forestnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 2011Smokingunder an acreOlympic National ForestOPEN LAKE
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ForestQUINAULT RIDGE
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ForestSOUTH SHORE
4 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOlympic National Forest2257 DEBRIS
21 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOlympic National ForestBOULDER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Quinault: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Cesium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
246-3.6 Quarry Prairie Creek NorthStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chamberlain QuarryCesiumPast Producer
Chamberlain QuarryStonePast Producer
Fishel ClaimManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
Fishel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quinault Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Pit Ps-H-128Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quinault in 1 storm report in 2025: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2025Heavy RainQuinault-Heavy rainfall of 6.76 inches was reported at Quinault in Olympic National Park.|Heavy rainfall of 4.61 inches was reported in Ocean Shores, WA.

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Amanda Park2.2 miles11
Norwood2.5 miles10
Neilton4.2 miles11
Weatherwax13.0 miles11
Grisdale14.5 miles11
Humptulips17.2 miles10
Axford19.6 miles10
Nisson24.3 miles10

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 QuinaultAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7272079The 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 1524776. 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.