Yacht Haven, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the San Juan Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98250. It lies near Guss Island. The Survey maps it on the Roche Harbor quadrangle.

Yacht Haven within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Roche Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Roche Harbor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Yacht Haven between 1995 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK SJI
19 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	MAINT
7 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	AFTERGLOW
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HENRY ISLAD
24 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Yacht Haven: 10 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Roche Harbor Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Cowell Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Davison Head Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Deadman Bay Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
English Camp Deposit	Limestone, General	Prospect
Henry Island Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Johnson Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Kellett Bluff Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Krumdick	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Lawson Cave Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Roche Harbor	2.0 miles	10
Lakedale	4.5 miles	10
Prevost	7.2 miles	8
Friday Harbor	8.7 miles	10
Deer Harbor	9.2 miles	11
Argyle	9.3 miles	10
Waldron	9.9 miles	11
West Sound	11.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511441. 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.