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Rye, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Kittitas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98926. The Survey maps it on the Doris quadrangle.

Rye within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rye in 2014, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 October 2014Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMEEK

Every fire 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
Cheviot3.5 miles12
Doris5.7 miles11
Boylston6.9 miles12
Vantage8.7 miles18
Beverly Junction9.3 miles16
Levering10.5 miles16
Renslow11.7 miles13
Scammon Landing12.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511284. 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.