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Roza, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1965. It stands in the Manastash Ridge census division. It stands on Roza Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wymer quadrangle. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

Roza within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Roza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,886 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12
Fireworks9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning3
Natural2

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane District47 CHARLIE
6 September 2003Fireworksunder an acreSpokane DistrictBIG PINE 2
29 September 1999Recreation and ceremony10 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSpokane DistrictUMTANUM
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSpokane DistrictSELAH BUTTE
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSpokane DistrictROSE SPRING
28 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWYMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Roza: 9 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fullers Earth, Pumice. 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
East RozaFullers EarthOccurrence
Roza PitPumicePast Producer
Roberts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East RozaDiatomitePast Producer
Sec. 17 Deposit BDiatomiteOccurrence
Sec. 19 DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Sec. 30 DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Sec. 32 DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Sec. 36 DepositDiatomiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roza in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2004Flash FloodRoza$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Hillside Siding2.9 miles15
Wymer2.9 miles13
Umtanum5.8 miles13
Edgemont9.7 miles15
Thrall10.6 miles18
Holmes12.7 miles18
Kittitas13.9 miles15
East Kittitas14.0 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q27995407The 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 1511275. 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.