West Seattle, Washington

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seattle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98116. It lies near Fairmount Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Duwamish Head quadrangle.

West Seattle within King County

On record in West Seattle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Seattle Public Librarylisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
Schmitz Park Bridgelisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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.

1894 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1908 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1909 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1909 USGS Seattle Special quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Duwamish Head quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Duwamish Head quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Seattle South quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Seattle: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Youngstown	0.9 miles	32
Alki	1.3 miles	33
Delridge	1.6 miles	32
Lowman Beach Park	2.1 miles	33
Fauntleroy	3.3 miles	33
Highland Park	3.4 miles	32
Belltown	3.7 miles	32
Arbor Heights	3.7 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512795. 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.

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.