Waha, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lewiston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83501. It stands on Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waha quadrangle.

Waha within Nez Perce County

On record in Waha

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 1 record

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

Twenty-One Ranchhouselisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1946 USGS Limekiln Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Waha quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Waha between 1992 and 2018, burning about 327 acres in total. 14 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
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BLU LAKE
3 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SPIDER WEBB
3 September 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	WAHA1
3 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	21 RANCH
19 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.1 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BEARBAIT
19 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WEBB RIDGE
14 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	IRON FIRE
8 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RED BIRD LAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Waha: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Gold, Silver. 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	Recorded
Buchanan Quarry	Stone	Producer
Captain John Creek Pumicite Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Evergreen Mine	Copper	Prospect
Hether Group	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Madden Creek Limestone Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce 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
Taplin	5.9 miles	9
Snow (historical)	6.8 miles	9
Fairburn (historical)	6.9 miles	9
Webb	9.1 miles	9
Zaza	10.4 miles	10
Bundy	11.4 miles	9
Sweetwater	11.4 miles	9
Woodside	12.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 376184. 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.