Stentz Spring, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Snake River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99347. It lies near Bear Wallow. The Survey maps it on the Stentz Spring quadrangle.

Stentz Spring within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Stentz Spring quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Stentz Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Stentz Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52,162 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 4 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	49
Recreation and ceremony	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
6 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	TWIN CAMP
22 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	ABLES JUNCTION
2 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	INCIDENT 813
2 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Rose Springs

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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
Rose Springs	3.5 miles	16
Peola	7.6 miles	12
Mentor	16.9 miles	10
Zumwalt	17.0 miles	14
Unfried (historical)	17.0 miles	10
Pataha	17.1 miles	13
Pomeroy	17.1 miles	13
Houser	21.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511335. 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.