Sims Corner, Washington

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Waterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99115. The Survey maps it on the Sims Corner quadrangle.

Sims Corner within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Sims Corner quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sims Corner between 2009 and 2018, burning about 76,818 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
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	76,817 acres	Spokane District	GRASS VALLEY
16 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SIWASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mold

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sims Corner: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Guessing Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sims Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Mold	5.1 miles	7
Leahy	7.3 miles	6
Fairview	8.2 miles	6
Saint Andrews	8.7 miles	6
Nilles Corner	13.3 miles	10
Mansfield	14.6 miles	7
Baird (historical)	14.6 miles	6
Matthiesen (historical)	16.3 miles	7

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 Q122568752

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 1511316. 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.