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South Bellingham, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98225. It stands on Padden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bellingham South quadrangle.

South Bellingham within Whatcom County

On record in South Bellingham

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 5 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

75 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of South Bellingham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony30
Smoking11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Fireworks7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 1998Smoking1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom 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 South Bellingham: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Magnesite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chuckanut Bay QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
GrandviewClayPast Producer
Lookout Mountain Bentonite DepositBentoniteOccurrence
Olivine MillMagnesitePast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Bellingham in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2023Heavy RainSouth Bellingham-A record rainfall of 1.58 inches was set at Bellingham Airport on October 24th, breaking the old record of 0.9 set in 2001.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fairhaven0.9 miles11
Happy Valley1.2 miles14
Edgemoor1.2 miles11
Chuckanut Village1.3 miles14
Washington Colony (historical)2.4 miles17
Bellingham2.8 miles17
Lakeway2.8 miles14
Roosevelt3.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512673. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.