Tulalip Bay, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Tulalip Reservation census division. The Survey maps it on the Tulalip quadrangle. 1,561 people lived here at the 2000 count.

Tulalip Bay within Snohomish County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1943 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Tulalip quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tulalip Bay between 1992 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	9
Fireworks	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 1994	Other causes	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	22 DRIVE
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	FISHMAN
28 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PEBBLE BEACH
25 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	TUL-THIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tulalip Bay: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gedney Hat Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Mission Beach	2.1 miles	16
Tulalip	2.4 miles	16
Priest Point	3.1 miles	16
Spee-Bi-Dah	3.8 miles	16
Shaker Church	4.5 miles	17
Tulare Beach	4.8 miles	16
Weallup Lake	5.0 miles	16
Sunny Shores	5.3 miles	16

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 Tulalip Bay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505426	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 1867639. 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.