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Swinomish Village, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Swinomish Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98257. The Survey maps it on the Anacortes South quadrangle.

Swinomish Village within Skagit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Swinomish Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony15
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
7 September 1993Recreation and ceremony2.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOLAHDWH LANE
17 September 2005Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE
15 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEAD MAN
10 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSHORECREST STRIKE
20 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPIT FIRE
11 August 2016Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit 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 Swinomish Village: 5 unknowns, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Arsenic, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AlversonNickel, ArsenicOccurrenceRealgar
Alverson DepositStrontium, NickelOccurrence
Dunlap Towing CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStoneUnknown
Swinomish BayMagnesite, NickelOccurrence
La ConnerNickelProspect
Concrete Nor West, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gorton Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Knudson, Harold, Jr.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
La Conner1.6 miles19
Shelter Bay1.8 miles14
Snee Oosh2.5 miles14
West Shore2.5 miles14
Whitney3.5 miles19
Fish Town3.7 miles18
Gibraltar4.1 miles14
Whitmarsh Junction4.2 miles14

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 Q122570283The 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 1867637. 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.