Rupple, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Toppenish-Wapato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98933. It lies near Yakima Valley. The Survey maps it on the White Swan quadrangle.

Rupple within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1937 USGS White Swan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS White Swan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Toppenish quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

240 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Rupple between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,312 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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
Debris and open burning	80
Fireworks	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2

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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Yakama Agency	WALNUT
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Yakama Agency	BRANCH RD.
7 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yakama Agency	HARRAH DRAIN RD.
5 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yakama Agency	1900 BLOCK SHAKER CHURCH
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Yakama Agency	501 SUNRAY RD.
26 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Yakama Agency	NORTH BARKES
24 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Yakama Agency	STEPHENSON / BRANCH #3
20 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	14150

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima 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
Brownstown	1.3 miles	13
Harrah	4.6 miles	13
White Swan	5.5 miles	13
Farron	5.8 miles	13
Venner	6.8 miles	13
Ashue	9.1 miles	14
Wiley City	10.2 miles	15
Ahtanum	10.7 miles	17

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 Q122598629

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 1511278. 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.