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Walville, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Winlock-Pe Ell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98572. It stands on McCormick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pe Ell quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Walville within Lewis 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Walville between 1993 and 2019, burning about 146 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST WYNOCHEE
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined127 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFORK PEAK
6 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJONES FIRE
4 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters40 ROAD
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMP 21
21 August 1996Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Walville: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Road Pit No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pluvius QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Road Pit No. 35Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sliwa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thrash Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Reynolds (historical)0.8 miles14
McCormick1.5 miles14
Pe Ell3.3 miles14
Murnen5.5 miles14
Doty7.0 miles14
Dryad8.0 miles14
Mays (historical)11.1 miles15
Ceres11.3 miles15

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 WalvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995415The 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 1511410. 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.