Wild Goose, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. It lies near Hanger Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Delaney quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wild Goose within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Hay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Hay quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Delaney quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wild Goose (historical): 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
	Snake River	Pumice	Occurrence
	Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Jackson	3.6 miles	10
Delaney	5.9 miles	10
Tucannon	7.1 miles	13
Starbuck	12.1 miles	8
Turner	12.5 miles	14
Relief	12.8 miles	10
Powers	12.8 miles	8
Whetstone	13.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510768. 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.

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.