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Battle Ground is located about 11 miles (18 km) north northeast of Vancouver, 32 miles (51 km) south southwest of Mount St. Helens. It is near the geographical center of Clark County. [15] Battle Ground is 25.5 miles (41.0 km) from Portland, Oregon, and 161 miles (259 km) from Seattle.
The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [2]
The Old Wadena Historic District is a concentration of historical archaeology sites now largely contained within Old Wadena County Park in Thomastown Township, Minnesota, United States. Features include the sites of four successive trading posts established in 1782, 1792, 1825, and 1856; the original townsite of Wadena on the Red River Trails ...
The Washington Department of Natural Resources ordered the ban across 16 counties. Campfires will still be allowed in designated campgrounds but are otherwise banned on DNR lands in its southeast ...
Officials placed bans on Massachusetts as it faced over 100 brush fires in the last week and an enhanced brushfire risk.. Over 120 brush fires have burned around 450 acres in the state in the last ...
In addition to the 24 counties placed on the burn ban order on Sept. 7 that The Dispatch previously reported, Franklin, Pickaway, Fairfield, and Licking counties have now been included, the fire ...
Washington's 18th legislative district is one of forty-nine districts in Washington state for representation in the state legislature. The district is located within Clark County , bordering the 20th district in the north, the 14th district in the east, and the 49th and 17th districts in the southwest.
The Yacolt Burn is the collective name for dozens of fires in Washington state and Oregon occurring between September 8 and September 12, 1902, [1] causing 38 deaths in the Lewis River area, at least nine deaths by fire in Wind River and 18 deaths in the Columbia River Gorge.