Smyrna, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mattawa-Royal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99357. The Survey maps it on the Smyrna quadrangle. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Smyrna within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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 Red Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Smyrna between 1998 and 2020, burning about 10,717 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
4 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Spokane District	VINYARD 22
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	BOXPLANT
5 July 2006	Natural	530 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	RED ROCK
30 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	BEVBURK-26
26 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	14.5-CRABC
24 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	SMYRNA
2 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	258 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	SCHRUMRANC
15 July 2007	Natural	1,300 acres	Spokane District	SMYRNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Smyrna: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Nehls Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Royal City	4.6 miles	12
Jericho	6.9 miles	16
Corfu	11.1 miles	11
Low Gap	12.2 miles	16
Schwana	14.0 miles	16
Beverly	14.4 miles	16
Mattawa	14.5 miles	12
Wanapum Village	15.2 miles	16

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.

Wikipedia article on Smyrna	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989079	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 1511323. 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.