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West Valley, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98908. It lies near Wide Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Yakima West quadrangle. 10,433 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

West Valley within Yakima County

On record in West Valley

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

53 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of West Valley between 2000 and 2019, burning about 4,434 acres in total. 1 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
Fireworks39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency42ND & MCCULLOUGH RD
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresYakama AgencyMEDOWBROK
6 August 2015Fireworksunder an acreYakama AgencySOUTH AHTANUM
31 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1,661 acresYakama AgencyN. AHTANUM
13 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresYakama Agency79TH AHTANUM
8 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresYakama Agency7790 S. AHTANUM
7 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency16TH AND GILBERT
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreYakama Agency16TH / GILBERT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of West Valley: 9 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Diatomite. 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
GleedDiatomiteOccurrence
Naches RiverGraphiteOccurrence
YakimaGemstoneOccurrence
Summit View QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zirkle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima 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
Summitview2.0 miles15
Ahtanum2.4 miles17
Harwood2.8 miles15
Brace2.9 miles16
Elliott Ave3.2 miles15
Fruitvale3.3 miles17
Wiley City3.6 miles15
Weikel4.3 miles14

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 West ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504315The 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 1867646. 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.