Westhaven, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Westport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98595. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle.

Westhaven within Grays Harbor County

On record in Westhaven

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.

Grays Harbor Light Stationlisted 1977 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1941 USGS Grayland quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Westport quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Westport quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Westhaven between 1992 and 2018, burning about 86 acres in total. None 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	7
Fireworks	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	1
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
12 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MARINE VIEW 2
20 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG STUMP
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TWIN HARBORS
18 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DAMON POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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 Westhaven: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, Platinum, Gold, Titanium. 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
Grays Harbor Area Illmenite Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence
Point Brown	Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, Platinum	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Point Brown Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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
Westport	1.4 miles	12
Cohassett	2.5 miles	11
Cohassett Beach	2.8 miles	11
Laidlow	3.9 miles	11
Bay City	4.2 miles	11
Ocosta	4.2 miles	12
Ocean Shores	5.0 miles	13
Markham	6.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512798. 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.