Wilderness Village, Washington

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.

• Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodgelisted 2003 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1949 USGS Maple Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Renton quadrangle1:25000
• 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Maple Valley quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wilderness Village between 1994 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dorre Don
• Maple Valley
• Wilderness
• Cherokee Bay Park
• Orchard Grove
• Arcadia

Every fire recorded in King County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Wilderness Village: 13 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in King County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510137. 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.