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Willard, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Carson-Underwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98605. It stands on Lava Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Willard within Skamania County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Willard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony21
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural8
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Natural3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTAG
8 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUGGIE
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesMOSS
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaLITTLE WHITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Willard: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Pipeline PitStonePast Producer
Broughton Lumber Co. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cooke Grade PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dietderich QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Skamania 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
Mill A2.0 miles15
Ericson View Tracts4.1 miles17
Hood View Tracts4.3 miles17
Cook5.1 miles16
Hood5.5 miles17
Underwood Heights6.3 miles17
Underwood6.6 miles17
Saint Martins Hot Springs9.5 miles13

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 WillardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48818123The 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 1528164. 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.