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Wanapum Village, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mattawa-Royal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99321. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Wanapum Village within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Wanapum Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 55,328 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution788 acresSpokane DistrictBEVERLY BURKE
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,262 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeLOWER CRAB CREEK
16 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresSpokane DistrictSENTINEL
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined68 acresSpokane DistrictHWY 243
6 July 2004Equipment and vehicle use20 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugePAPA
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresSpokane DistrictBEVERLY
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDISADVANTAGE
23 July 2019Natural2.4 acresSpokane DistrictWANAPUM DAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wanapum Village: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Sentinel BluffPumiceOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cohasett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Beverly1.8 miles16
Schwana2.8 miles16
Jericho8.5 miles16
Mattawa8.8 miles12
Low Gap11.9 miles16
Desert Aire12.7 miles12
Smyrna15.2 miles12
Sunland Estates15.4 miles9

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 Q122553884The 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 1512773. 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.