Venner, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Toppenish-Wapato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98951. The Survey maps it on the Harrah quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Venner within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1937 USGS White Swan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Toppenish quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

318 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Venner between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,444 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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
Fireworks	116
Debris and open burning	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Yakama Agency	BRANCH RD.
7 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yakama Agency	HARRAH DRAIN RD.
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	3214 MCDONALD
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	361 BUTLER RD.
4 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	170 HORSCHELL RD.
27 September 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Yakama Agency	N HARRAH
26 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yakama Agency	POTATO HILL CAMPFIRE
2 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	3250 PROGRESSIVE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Venner: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ashue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harrah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wapato Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima 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
Farron	1.0 miles	13
Harrah	2.2 miles	13
Ashue	2.3 miles	14
Wapato	5.2 miles	14
Brownstown	5.6 miles	13
Yethonat	5.6 miles	14
Rupple	6.8 miles	13
Parker	6.9 miles	14

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 Q7920145

The 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 1511394. 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.