Venice, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raymond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98547. It stands on Norris Slough. The Survey maps it on the Bay Center quadrangle.

Venice within Pacific County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1938 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Bay Center quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Chehalis River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Venice between 1992 and 2019, burning about 195 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	5
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BONE RIVER
14 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	47 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PACIFIC FIRE
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WASH AWAY
12 August 1992	Fireworks	2.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 July 2013	Fireworks	110 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	INDEPENDENCE
23 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific 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
Tokeland	1.5 miles	14
Dexter by the Sea	2.6 miles	12
Bruceport	4.6 miles	14
North Cove	6.1 miles	12
Bay Center	6.4 miles	14
Heather	6.9 miles	11
Rhodesia Beach	7.6 miles	15
Seahaven (historical)	8.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514884. 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.