Thomas, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Waitsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99362. It lies near Nightingale Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Buroker quadrangle.

Thomas within Walla Walla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1919 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:125000
1921 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Buroker quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Thomas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,685 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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 1998	Natural	21 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Mid Columbia National Wildlife Refuge Complex	GNAT
25 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	175 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BMIDC INC 1198 - MILL CREEK
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	MILLCREEK SPOTFIRE
8 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MORMON GRADE ROAD
27 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Thomas: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Stone. 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
Reser Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Gold	Unknown
Reser Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla 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
Kooskooskie	2.2 miles	13
Five Points	3.5 miles	13
Tracy	4.0 miles	11
Kibler	5.4 miles	11
Harbert	6.3 miles	11
Gilliam	6.5 miles	11
Buroker	6.8 miles	11
Eastman	6.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514024. 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.