BlockWhite Bluffs, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hanford Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98944. The Survey maps it on the Locke Island quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1924 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Hanford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Locke Island quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of White Bluffs between 1993 and 2017, burning about 13,698 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BOAT RAMP |
| 17 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BOAT L SMK |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | CHRYSLER |
| 2 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | RIVER |
| 12 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 925 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | WLKOLIVES |
| 12 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | 2WY24MP67S |
| 25 July 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hanford Reach National Monument | BOAT LAUNCH |
| 23 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | WAHLUKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Wikipedia article on White Bluffs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2475036 | 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 1531180. 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.