Weatherwax, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Neilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98563. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Larsen Creek quadrangle.

Weatherwax within Grays Harbor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1921 USGS Satsop quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Grisdale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Larsen Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Weatherwax between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	WYNOOCHEE #3
24 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	GRISDALE
19 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	FIELD
31 July 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SCATTER CREEK
23 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FRENCHY'S CORNER
11 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SPOON
7 June 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	MSO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Grisdale

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Weatherwax: 10 occurrences, 9 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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	Recorded
A.E. Graham	Manganese	Unknown	1956
A.E. Graham Claim	Manganese	Occurrence
Fosberg Claim	Manganese	Occurrence
Fossburg	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Grays Harbor Title	Manganese	Occurrence
Grays Harbor Title	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Hydman Claim	Manganese	Occurrence
Hyndman	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Knowles	Manganese	Occurrence	1956
Polson	Manganese	Unknown	1956

Every working 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
Grisdale	1.8 miles	11
Norwood	12.7 miles	10
Neilton	13.0 miles	11
Quinault	13.0 miles	10
Amanda Park	14.7 miles	11
Wishkah	17.7 miles	10
Humptulips	18.6 miles	10
Nisson	18.6 miles	10

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 Q122596682

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 1530578. 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.