BlockWickersham, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98220. It stands on Ennis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Acme quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 1891 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1921 USGS Wickersham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Wickersham quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Acme quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Wickersham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 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 ceremony | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STICKY WICKET |
| 21 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 August 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HUTCHISON CK |
| 26 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Wickersham: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alger | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Acme Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pacific Dump Truck Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Prairie | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Prairie | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| United Campground, Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Vista Bella Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wickersham in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2021 | Flood | Wickersham | 1 killed, $34,000,000 | Heavy rain and some snow melt caused flooding that exceeded major severity on the South Fork Nooksack River and mainstem Nooksack River at North Cedarville and Ferndale. There was urban and small stream flooding as well, hitting Bellingham especially hard. The heavy rain also triggered a dozen landslides throughout the area. Significant flooding on the Nooksack River also overflowed at the City of Everson to the degree that flood waters flowed north along an old Nooksack floodway and Johnson Creek where it flooded the cities of Everson and Nooksack, WA, then combined with flooding from the Sumas River and flooded the City of Sumas, WA where over 85% of homes sustained water damage. Damages are reported and estimated; not all damages have been identified. Crop damages are unknown. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirror Lake | 0.4 miles | 12 | |
| Doran | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Saxon | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Blue Canyon | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Acme | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Comar | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Clipper | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Sunnyside | 7.6 miles | 13 |
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 Wickersham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122550907 | 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 1528113. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.