Rose Springs, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pomeroy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99347. It lies near Stevens Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rose Springs quadrangle.

Rose Springs within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Rose Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Rose Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Rose Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	29
Recreation and ceremony	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	TWIN CAMP
25 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2011	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BMIDC 998 - ROCK HILL
22 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	ABLES JUNCTION
15 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	UPPER PATAHA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rose Springs: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Stentz Spring	3.5 miles	16
Peola	4.4 miles	12
Mentor	13.4 miles	10
Pataha	13.7 miles	13
Unfried (historical)	13.8 miles	10
Pomeroy	14.0 miles	13
Zumwalt	14.6 miles	14
Kirby	18.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512621. 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.