Snoose Junction, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98022. It stands on Steele Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Bend quadrangle.

Snoose Junction within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1913 USGS Cedar Lake quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Snoqualmie Pass quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Snoose Junction between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1 acre 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	3
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MIDDLE FORK
10 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TALYOR CREEK
3 January 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Snoose Junction: 4 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Clay. 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
Taylor	Clay	Past Producer
Durham Hi-Alumina Clay Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Kangley Hi-Alumina Clay Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
City of Seattle Road 10 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City of Seattle Road 50 Main Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	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
Bagley Junction	1.5 miles	14
Barneston	2.3 miles	14
Selleck	2.9 miles	14
Cedar Falls	3.2 miles	14
Kangley	3.9 miles	13
Kerriston	4.8 miles	14
Durham	5.3 miles	13
Trude	5.7 miles	13

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 Q122550618

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 1526013. 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.