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Weippe, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Weippe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83553. It stands on Grasshopper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weippe North quadrangle. 400 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,015 feet above sea level.

Weippe within Clearwater County

On record in Weippe

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Weippe fell from 441 to 400 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
2010441
2020400-41 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Weippe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 8 were 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
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks4

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFIDDLER ROAD
6 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFIDLER FLATS
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOLO
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsWEIPPE CEDAR
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarism4.4 acresIdaho Department of LandsWOODS ROAD
29 September 2019Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBORDERLINE
29 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsRESERVE POND
23 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFORDS LOADER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Weippe: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold, Stone, Dimension, Beryllium. 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
Allgood ProspectBerylliumOccurrenceAquamarine
Cw-69s QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weippe Iron DepositIron, GoldOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weippe in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2014HailWeippe$104,000A farmer reported major property and crop damage due to both large hail and wind. The property damage included 5 rental home roofs, siding from 3 homes, several windows, and 12 garage doors that either were dented or destroyed. Approximately 75% of his spring wheat crop, approximately 450 acres, was decimated by the wind and hail. In the 67 years that he has lived there, there was only one other storm that was comparable to this one. Back in 1963, a similar storm decimated his dad's crops.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWeippe$17,000A farmer reported around 12 trees (pine and red fir) broke between 6 and 16 feet above the ground. A bull pine near 3 feet in diameter at the base, broke off around 6 feet from the ground and destroyed a trailer house.
April 2018FloodWeippe$5,000Very heavy rainfall with amounts ranging from 1 to 3 inches combined with snow melt over a several day period led to overland flooding with rock, mud and water along portions of Clear Creek Road, Sally Ann Road, and on State Highway 13 along the South Fork Clearwater River halfway between Stites and Harpster. Plugged culverts were common.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWeippe-Strong winds downed trees, leading to an extended power outage in the Glenwood area.
June 2022HailWeippe-A person on Facebook reported large hail south of Weippe.
July 2019HailWeippe-Nickel to quarter-sized hail was reported in the town of Harpster, Idaho.
August 2014HailWeippe-The USDA reported that at least 400 acres of hard red spring wheat were destroyed and 700 acres were damaged. They also reported that 183.6 acres of soft wheat were destroyed and 189.2 acres were damaged. All in all, the total crop damage tallied at $425,000.
June 2012HailWeippe-A spotter measured hail of 1.75 inch diameter.
June 2012HailWeippe-A spotter estimated hail at 1.75 inches. In addition 1.25 inches of rain fell in 1.5 hours.
May 2006HailWeippe-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWeippe-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWeippe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Jacobson2.7 miles10
Johnsons Mill3.7 miles10
Peterson Corners7.5 miles10
Cooper7.9 miles11
Omill8.1 miles10
Haley8.3 miles10
Cow Creek8.3 miles10
Rudo8.7 miles11

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 WeippeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517811The 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 398329. 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.