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Seatons Grove, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99116. It stands on Peter Dan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belvedere quadrangle.

Seatons Grove within Okanogan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Seatons Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40,256 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined24
Fireworks19
Natural17
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
9 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville AgencyMANILA CR
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville Agency3 BEARS
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyRAT RANCH
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyELMER CITY TRAILER P
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyELMER CITY GUARDRAIL
24 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyHWY 155 MP 38 CAR
22 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresColville AgencyREBECCA LK
2 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresColville AgencySEATONS GROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Seatons Grove: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Zinc, Silver. 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
Coulee City DepositAluminumOccurrence
RebeccaCopper, Silver, ZincProspectChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite
RebeccaCopper, Zinc, SilverUnknown
Allied Concrete Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Consolidated Builders, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Indian PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sanford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
SeatenSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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
Koontzville0.6 miles10
Elmer City1.8 miles16
Belvedere2.5 miles10
Lone Pine2.9 miles16
Mason City4.0 miles16
Coulee Dam4.2 miles16
Mason City (historical)5.1 miles16
Nespelem10.0 miles10

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 Q122546312The 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 1511300. 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.