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Onaway, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Potlatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83855. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Potlatch quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,621 feet above sea level.

Onaway within Latah County

On record in Onaway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Onaway grew from 187 to 196 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010187
2020196+9 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Onaway between 1996 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
26 September 2018Debris and open burning56 acresIdaho Department of LandsGOLD HILL
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIdaho Department of LandsDUTCH LANE
2 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST GROUSE CREEK
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsEAST ROCK CREEK
8 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGOLD CREEK GRASS
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST GOLD
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGOLD HILL
8 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCLUBHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Onaway: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Onaway MineKaolinPast Producer1902
Potlatch Clay DepositBrick ClayPast ProducerClay
Potlatch Corporation PitPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Potlatch PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brickner MineClayPast Producer1903
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Potlatch South Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrenceClay

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onaway in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flood. 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
March 2012FloodOnaway$10,000The Red Cross North Central Disaster Response Team helped a family evacuate their Harvard home early March 26th due to flooding along the Palouse River and Gold Creek. The family had been fighting minor flooding for days but finally decided to evacuate their home when standing water began to fill the house. The water was four inches deep in some spots.

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Potlatch0.6 miles12
Potlatch Junction2.3 miles12
Hampton2.4 miles12
Princeton3.2 miles12
Freeze3.6 miles12
Chambers (historical)5.7 miles12
Cora6.5 miles10
Mountain Home (historical)6.6 miles10

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 OnawayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510692The 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 397963. 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.