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Saint Urban, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Napavine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98596. The Survey maps it on the Napavine quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Saint Urban within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Saint Urban between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Natural1
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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNIKULA
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMEIER RD
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersALPHA RD
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters150TH
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGAME DAY
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIN MAN
25 September 1996Debris and open burning1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1994Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Saint Urban: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. 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
Quality Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Winlock PlacerTitaniumOccurrence
Winlock Placer ProspectTitanium, MetalOccurrencePlacer
Keller-Petra-Keller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Alois RakozStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eveline QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Evaline3.1 miles15
Winlock3.3 miles11
Marys Corner3.9 miles15
Napavine4.1 miles15
Cowlitz4.7 miles11
Klaus4.8 miles15
Toledo5.8 miles11
Forest5.8 miles15

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 Saint UrbanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17107627The 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 1513198. 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.