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Upper Preston, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Issaquah Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98027. It stands on Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fall City quadrangle.

Upper Preston within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Upper Preston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAGING RIVER
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAGING RIVER
15 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMITCHELL HILL
11 August 1998Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Upper Preston: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Preston Expanding ShaleClayOccurrence
Fall City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raging River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoen North Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hjort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Preston1.6 miles18
High Point4.2 miles18
Kerriston4.4 miles14
Fall City4.4 miles18
Spring Glen4.6 miles18
Snoqualmie4.7 miles18
Mirrormont5.5 miles13
Snoqualmie Falls5.7 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 Q122592502The 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 1527648. 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.