Sunset Beach, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Ocean Shores census division. It stands on Joe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moclips quadrangle.

Sunset Beach within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1938 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
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
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Quinault Indian Nations	BOB WAYNE
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	VACUUM
14 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	DODGE
24 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	COVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sunset Beach: 6 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron. 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	Recorded
Moclips Placer	Chromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Moclips River Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Excelsior	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Excelsior Claim	Manganese	Occurrence	Replacement
Paramont	Manganese	Prospect	1956
Paramount Claim	Manganese	Occurrence
Superior	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Superior Claim	Manganese	Occurrence
Supreme	Manganese	Unknown	1956

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Highland Heights	0.7 miles	13
Moclips	0.7 miles	13
Pacific Beach	1.2 miles	13
Aloha	2.8 miles	13
Ocean Grove	3.1 miles	13
Iron Springs	4.7 miles	13
Onslow	6.3 miles	13
Carlisle West	7.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512706. 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.