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Veazie, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98022. It lies near Fell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Enumclaw quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Veazie within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Veazie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOISE CREEK
17 September 2008Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTP SQUASH
16 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREEN RIVER GORGE
19 August 2001Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Veazie: 13 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic, Aluminum. 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
Blum PitClayPast Producer
DobroffIronOccurrence
Franklin ArsenicArsenic, SilverProspect
Franklin Silica SandSilicaProspect
Royal Reward MineMercury, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1875, 1957
Blum Hi-Alumina Clay DepositAluminumProspect
Cardinal Reward MineMercury, ArsenicOccurrence1958
Kummer DepositAluminumProspect
Burlington Northern Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Enumclaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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
Birch1.8 miles18
Krain1.9 miles18
Naco2.4 miles13
Cumberland2.8 miles13
Enumclaw3.6 miles18
Franklin3.7 miles13
Upper Mill4.0 miles18
Bayne4.1 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 VeazieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989103The 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 1527692. 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.