Shore Acres, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Vashon Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98070. The Survey maps it on the Tacoma North quadrangle.

Shore Acres within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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.

1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1949 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shore Acres in 2001, burning about 40 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 ceremony	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
17 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shore Acres: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) Asarco Refinery	Copper, Nickel, Arsenic	Plant
Christel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ellisport Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maury Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maury Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maury Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pohl Pit - Div. 10	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarries	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Summerhurst	0.6 miles	24
Rosehilla	1.2 miles	24
Dockton	1.3 miles	24
Manzanita	1.4 miles	24
Hongking (historical)	1.5 miles	24
Harbor Heights	2.3 miles	24
Burton	2.4 miles	23
Mileta	2.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511310. 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.