Sunset Beach, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tacoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98467. It stands on Chambers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steilacoom quadrangle.

Sunset Beach within Pierce County

On record in Sunset Beach

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 1 record

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

Charles and Mary Louise Curran Houselisted 2012 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1940 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Steilacoom quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Beach between 2005 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TIMBERLAKE
6 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPILLMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Sunset Beach: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Meadow Park Pit & Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holroyd Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakewood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mcneil Island Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sprague & S. Tacoma Way Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Steilacoom Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Steilacoom Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pioneer	1.1 miles	16
University Place	1.7 miles	16
Peach Acres	2.0 miles	16
Hope	2.1 miles	16
Titlow	2.2 miles	16
Fircrest	3.3 miles	16
Magnolia Heights	3.5 miles	15
Wollochet	3.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512705. 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.