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Union Mill, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Olympia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98503. It lies near Holmes Island. The Survey maps it on the Lacey quadrangle. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Union Mill within Thurston County

On record in Union Mill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Union Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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
Recreation and ceremony64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Debris and open burning47
Fireworks24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking10
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersI-5 TRAIL SE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSEVEN OAKS
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOLMIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Union Mill: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
St. Clair LakeIronProspect
Fleetwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gleason Kearney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lacey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nisqually PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O & K Trucking Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olympia Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Squires PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tom Martin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
Mushroom Corner1.1 miles18
Tanglewilde1.4 miles18
Thompson Place1.6 miles18
Lacey2.6 miles18
Saint Clair2.7 miles17
Kellys Korner3.3 miles21
Nisqually4.2 miles17
South Bay5.0 miles18

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 Q27989092The 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 1513229. 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.