Shelter Bay, Washington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• La Conner Historic Districtlisted 1974 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1943 USGS Deception Pass quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Deception Pass quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
• 1978 USGS Anacortes South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Anacortes South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Shelter Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• La Conner
• Swinomish Village
• Fish Town
• Snee Oosh
• West Shore
• Dewey

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Shelter Bay: 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, REE, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Skagit County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867631. 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.