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Teanaway, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It stands on Thornton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Teanaway quadrangle. It stands 1,841 feet above sea level.

Teanaway within Kittitas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Teanaway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,240 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony37
Debris and open burning22
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Other causes7
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBUFFALO SPRINGS
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSESHOE CANYON
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWENDY'S
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORRISON CANYON
8 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestSHARON OSBORN
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLANIGAN POWERLINE
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOPING ROAD
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas 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 Teanaway: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Clay, 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
Cle Elum Sand and GravelClayProducer
Denny Assigned To PittsburgManganeseProspect
Dubinsky QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ballard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ellensburg Cement PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teanaway in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015HailTeanaway-Social Media video report.
April 2011FloodTeanaway-Continuing from March 31, the river gage at Horlick crested at .5 feet above flood stage.

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Bristol3.8 miles17
Cle Elum4.6 miles16
South Cle Elum4.9 miles16
Horlick4.9 miles17
Roslyn7.9 miles16
Lauderdale Junction8.1 miles15
Ronald9.7 miles16
Nelson10.4 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on TeanawayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7691699The 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 1526962. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.