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Winesap, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Entiat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98816. It lies near Oklahoma Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Winesap quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Winesap within Chelan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Winesap between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,627 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 3 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Natural10 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestUPPER CRUM CANYON
9 September 2012Natural14,164 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBYRD
9 September 2012Natural50 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestNAVARRE COULEE 2
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestCRUM CANYON
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestJOHNSON CREEK
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Winesap: 10 occurrences, 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Feldspar, Nickel. 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
Crum CanyonPerliteProspect
DickNickel, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Malachite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
DickCobalt, Copper, NickelOccurrence1898
DickNickel, Copper, CobaltUnknown
Dick Nickel PropertyPumice, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, NickelProspect
Hilltop No 1 and 2SilicaOccurrence
Lovitt MineStoneUnknown
RexSilver, GoldPast ProducerPyrite
RexGold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Strack TungstenTungstenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winesap in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023Debris FlowWinesap$1,000Rock slide along the East shore closed US 97A near milepost 220.

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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
Maplecreek3.7 miles14
Entiat5.8 miles13
Stayman5.9 miles14
Entiat (historical)6.8 miles13
Sunnybank7.4 miles14
Farris7.7 miles14
Manson8.9 miles13
Granite Falls9.0 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 WinesapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995418The 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 1528244. 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.