BlockTire Junction, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the North Skamania census division. It stands on Mosquito Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sleeping Beauty quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Steamboat Mtn quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1931 USGS Steamboat Mtn quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Sleeping Beauty quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Sleeping Beauty quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Tire Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Smoking | 23 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | CARCASS |
| 3 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | MOSQUITO |
| 29 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | LOUIE |
| 22 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | IDOT |
| 18 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | NOBLE |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | ECKHART POINT |
| 13 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | BIRD |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwoods | 16.0 miles | 17 | |
| Stabler | 22.3 miles | 15 | |
| Willard | 22.4 miles | 15 | |
| Mill A | 23.8 miles | 15 | |
| Harmony Falls Landing (historical) | 25.1 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Martins Hot Springs | 25.9 miles | 13 | |
| Carson | 26.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ericson View Tracts | 26.4 miles | 17 |
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 Q122596636 | The 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 1527258. 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.