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Underwood, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Carson-Underwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98651. The Survey maps it on the Hood River quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Underwood within Skamania County

On record in Underwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Underwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,318 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning67
Recreation and ceremony40
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Smoking23
Fireworks23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Natural11
Other causes7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism5

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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresThe Dalles UnitMOSIER EAST
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUGGIE
6 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,644 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 141
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830
5 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Underwood: 40 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Klickitat Co. PitsStone, DimensionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Dollar Pit 1920 TrsStonePast Producer
East PitStonePast Producer
George Property QuarryStonePast Producer
Hanel QuarryStonePast Producer
Hood River Pit & PlantStonePast Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel PitStonePast Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel PitStonePast Producer
Jones Creek Pit 1812 TrsStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Skamania 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
Underwood Heights0.4 miles17
Hood1.7 miles17
Hood View Tracts3.7 miles17
Ericson View Tracts3.9 miles17
Willard6.6 miles15
Mill A6.8 miles15
Cook7.2 miles16
Home Valley13.4 miles13

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 UnderwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7883907The 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 1512748. 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.