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Whitmarsh Junction, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Anacortes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98221. The Survey maps it on the Anacortes South quadrangle.

Whitmarsh Junction within Skagit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Whitmarsh Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 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
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Fireworks4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2005Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAYVIEW
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCAMPBELL LAKE
3 August 2019Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCAP SANTE
29 August 2011Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHEART LAKE
29 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMT. ERIE
27 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMT. ERIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Whitmarsh Junction: 9 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
AnacortesChromium, PlatinumOccurrenceChromite
Fidalgo IslandCopper, GoldProspect
Island MineCopper, Magnesite, IronOccurrence
Mountain HomeManganeseOccurrence
Mountain Home ClaimCopper, ManganeseOccurrenceBementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
AnacopperSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceCopper, Gold
Fidalgo IslandSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceUnderground
Dot IslandStoneOccurrence
Hat IslandStoneOccurrence
Saddlebag IslandStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Fidalgo1.9 miles14
Sharpes Corner2.4 miles14
Similk Beach2.5 miles14
Howards Corner2.6 miles14
Snee Oosh3.1 miles14
West Shore3.1 miles14
Bay View3.4 miles19
Gibraltar3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122542171The 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 1513241. 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.