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Woodland Park, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98603. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Woodland Park within Cowlitz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony16
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDAVIS PEAK
28 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPUP FIRE
27 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPH FIRE
14 September 2006Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTHOUSAND TRAILS
10 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUSKY MARBLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodland Park: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Spencer QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz 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
Yale5.1 miles14
Ariel5.6 miles14
Pigeon Springs9.0 miles12
Cougar10.2 miles17
Woodland15.4 miles14
Harrington Place16.8 miles16
Caples18.2 miles18
Caples Landing18.3 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q17199160The 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 1528296. 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.