Sunshine Beach, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Key Peninsula-Anderson Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98329. The Survey maps it on the Fox Island quadrangle.

Sunshine Beach within Pierce County

On record in Sunshine 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.

Glencove Hotellisted 1978 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Gig Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Sylvan quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Fox Island quadrangle1:24000

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 Sunshine Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HUGE CREEK
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RASOR ROAD
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	VICTOR
13 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CARNEY LAKE
11 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	VAUGHN CREEK
1 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	VICTOR JUNCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sunshine Beach: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
144th St. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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
Glencove	0.6 miles	14
Key Center	1.2 miles	14
Vaughn	1.8 miles	13
Minter	2.4 miles	14
Sunrise Beach	2.8 miles	14
Rosedale	4.5 miles	14
Forest Beach	4.8 miles	14
Wauna	5.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511839. 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.