Vesta, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the North River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98537. It stands on Vesta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Vesta within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Montesano quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Montesano quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Chehalis River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Vesta between 2001 and 2015, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle 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
31 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 July 2015	Fireworks	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MELBOURNE A-400
21 July 2002	Smoking	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 June 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH RIVER
17 October 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Artic	7.7 miles	14
Melbourne	8.0 miles	14
Weikswood	8.3 miles	15
South Montesano	8.6 miles	14
Alder Grove	9.5 miles	14
Montesano	10.2 miles	14
Central Park	11.1 miles	14
Fuller	11.6 miles	15

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 Vesta	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989105	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 1511396. 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.