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Sunrise, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Mount Rainier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98304. It lies near Yakima Park. The Survey maps it on the Sunrise quadrangle. It stands 6,401 feet above sea level.

Sunrise within Pierce County

On record in Sunrise

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 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise between 1992 and 2018, burning about 349 acres in total. 33 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
Natural33
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
1 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMARCUS
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkWHITE
5 August 2003Natural310 acresMount Rainier National ParkREDSTONE3
3 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMount Rainier National ParkWHITERIVER
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkCOLD BASIN
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkGRAND
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkELK RIDGE
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkSCARFACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Sunrise: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold. 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
Black HawkGoldUnknown
StarbonitCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Snoquera9.4 miles13
Paradise10.2 miles21
Nisqually Vista10.4 miles21
Longmire14.5 miles23
Greenwater16.6 miles14
Upper Fairfax20.0 miles26
Fairfax20.9 miles26
Ashford23.3 miles15

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 Q97138924The 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 1526756. 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.