Saratoga, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Whidbey Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98260. The Survey maps it on the Langley quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Saratoga within Island County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1943 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Langley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Saratoga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	27
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LONE LAKE RD
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CLASSIC 12
10 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MINOR CAMP
5 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DALLMAN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Island 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
Bells Beach	0.3 miles	14
Beverly Beach	2.6 miles	14
Camp Diana	2.9 miles	14
Mabana	3.1 miles	14
Baby Island Heights	3.3 miles	14
Langley	3.9 miles	14
Bretland	4.0 miles	14
Sunny Shore Acres	4.0 miles	14

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 Q108051339

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 1512642. 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.