Editing Fife, Washington (section)

==Geography==

Fife is entirely within the [[Puyallup Indian Reservation]] created in 1854, but title is held almost entirely by non-Native Americans.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Tribe to Sign Land Settlement Pact : Indian claims: Puyallup members will share $162 million for relinquishing interest in acreage in Tacoma area.|date=March 24, 1990|author=George Hardeen |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-680-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|date=January 2017 |title=Puyallup Tribe of Indians Street Map |url=http://www.puyallup-tribe.com/gis/downloads/ReservationFacilities_Web.pdf |publisher=[[Puyallup Tribe of Indians]] |access-date=April 21, 2020}}</ref> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|5.964|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|5.834|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.130|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2024"/>

Fife is also a tideflat community, residing in the low, flat area extending from the Port of Tacoma. This means the [[water table]] occurs only {{convert|10|-|15|ft|m}} below ground in some parts. Consequently, during the day, as the tide rises and falls in the [[Puget Sound]], so do parts of land slightly rise and fall. The southern portions of the city are in the floodplain of the [[Puyallup River]]. Much of the city would be damaged or destroyed in the event of a [[lahar]] due to an eruption of [[Mount Rainier]].