Wiley City, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98903. The Survey maps it on the Wiley City quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Wiley City within Yakima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1899 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Wiley City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wiley City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,688 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 were 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
Fireworks	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Yakama Agency	42ND & MCCULLOUGH RD
6 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Yakama Agency	MEDOWBROK
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Yakama Agency	WILEY PASS
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Yakama Agency	WILEY RD
8 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	884 acres	Yakama Agency	NORTH BROWNSTOWN 2
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	344 acres	Yakama Agency	NORTH BROWNSTOWN
6 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76 acres	Yakama Agency	AHTANUM RIDGE
6 August 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	SOUTH AHTANUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima 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
Ahtanum	1.5 miles	17
Harwood	2.2 miles	15
Elliott Ave	2.9 miles	15
Summitview	3.1 miles	15
Gromore	3.6 miles	15
West Valley	3.6 miles	17
Tietonview Grange	4.3 miles	15
Weikel	5.7 miles	14

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 Wiley City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14713944	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 1512807. 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.