BlockWenas, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Northwest Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98942. It stands on North Fork Wenas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milk Canyon quadrangle. It stands 2,274 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Milk Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wenas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 75,303 acres in total. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BOX SPRING |
| 3 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FLATS |
| 19 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | COW CANYON |
| 18 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DRY CREEK |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | 131 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PASS 2 |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 74,800 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EVANS CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wenas in 2 storm reports in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wenas | - | Trees down. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Wenas | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q7982274 | 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 1527893. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.