Wahluke, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 99349. The Survey maps it on the Coyote Rapids quadrangle.

Wahluke within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1916 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Coyote Rapids quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Wahluke between 1993 and 2020, burning about 51,814 acres in total. 12 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	16
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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 2018	Natural	11,464 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	WAHLUKE SLOPE
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	CORNER
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	POWERLINE2
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	BOAT RAMP
10 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	WAH DITCH
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	CHRYSLER
6 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	SPARKY
29 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	CANALCLEAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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
Bettie	2.4 miles	13
Ginger	2.8 miles	13
Nancy	3.4 miles	13
White Bluffs	4.3 miles	12
East White Bluffs	5.0 miles	12
Ruth	6.4 miles	12
Helen	6.6 miles	13
Audrey	6.9 miles	13

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 Q122554088

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 1511403. 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.