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.
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.
Four-Room Houselisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
American Legion Cabinlisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
Joseph A. Terteling Houselisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
Boarding Houselisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.7 miles away- Three-Room Houselisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
- Workers' Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
- Nob Hill Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresOnaway 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 187 | |
| 2020 | 196 | +9 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 56 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | GOLD HILL |
| 23 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | DUTCH LANE |
| 2 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WEST GROUSE CREEK |
| 15 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.5 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | EAST ROCK CREEK |
| 8 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | GOLD CREEK GRASS |
| 6 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WEST GOLD |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | GOLD HILL |
| 8 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CLUBHOUSE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onaway Mine | Kaolin | Past Producer | 1902 | |
| Potlatch Clay Deposit | Brick Clay | Past Producer | Clay | |
| Potlatch Corporation Pit | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Potlatch Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Brickner Mine | Clay | Past Producer | 1903 | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Potlatch South Clay Occurrence | Clay | Occurrence | Clay |
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Flood | Onaway | $10,000 | The 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potlatch | 0.6 miles | 12 | |
| Potlatch Junction | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hampton | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Princeton | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Freeze | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Chambers (historical) | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cora | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mountain Home (historical) | 6.6 miles | 10 |
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 Onaway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1510692 | The 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.





