Vance (not official), Washington

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Big Bottom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98377. It stands on Spears Creek. The Survey maps it on the Randle quadrangle.

Vance (not official) within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1924 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1924 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:96000
1928 USGS Mt Rainier quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Randle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1978 USGS Mount Rainier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Randle quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Randle quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Vance (not official) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 burning	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SILVER CREEK
5 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	not named
3 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	FOOTBALL
20 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIONA ROAD
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SAVIO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Vance (not official): 7 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Ames Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Smathers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Squatter Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cowlitz Valley C	Pumice	Occurrence
Hunt & Gaines Pit	Pumice	Past Producer
Kiona Creek A	Pumice	Occurrence
Kiona Creek B	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Siler	0.7 miles	23
Randle	1.6 miles	23
Silver Brook	2.2 miles	23
Cora	7.9 miles	23
Cispus	9.9 miles	16
Glenoma	11.8 miles	16
Kosmos (historical)	13.3 miles	15
Packwood	15.5 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1529160. 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.