Sunland Estates, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98848. The Survey maps it on the Cape Horn SE quadrangle.

Sunland Estates within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1920 USGS Colockum Pass quadrangle1:125000
1922 USGS Colockum Pass quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Cape Horn SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sunland Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 1 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	9.2 acres	Spokane District	VANTAGE
4 July 2020	Fireworks	16 acres	Spokane District	SILICA
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.3 acres	Spokane District	BABCOCK STATION
20 July 2012	Natural	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COLOCKUM FINGER
11 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	100 acres	Spokane District	OLD VANTAGE ROAD
29 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	SUNLAND
9 October 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Sunland Estates: 10 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cathedral Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sunland Estates	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dia-Cousti-Lite Deposit	Diatomite	Past Producer
Johnson No. 2 Deposit	Diatomite	Prospect
S. Sec. 9 Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Sec. 16 Deposit A	Diatomite	Past Producer
Sec. 16 Deposit B	Diatomite	Prospect
Sec. 16 Deposit C	Diatomite	Prospect
Sec. 17 Deposit A	Diatomite	Past Producer
Sec. 21 Deposit A	Diatomite	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
George	9.2 miles	14
Crescent Bar	9.7 miles	14
Trinidad	10.8 miles	8
Crater	12.5 miles	14
Low Gap	14.1 miles	16
Quincy	14.4 miles	13
Wanapum Village	15.4 miles	16
Beverly	17.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2807183. 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.