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White Bird, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grangeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83554. It lies near Giants Nose. The Survey maps it on the White Bird quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,581 feet above sea level.

White Bird within Idaho County

On record in White Bird

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

White Bird fell from 91 to 83 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
201091
202083-8 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of White Bird between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,335 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural20
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeHOOTS
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST RAIL
30 September 1996Recreation and ceremony40 acresCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeBETTY CR
25 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCottonwood Field OfficeDOUMECQ
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresIdaho Department of LandsGREGORY
9 August 2010Naturalunder an acreCraig Mountain Area OfficeMILE MARKER 222
8 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGREGORY CREEK
7 August 2008Natural75 acresIdaho Department of LandsBANNER RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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 White Bird: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State Pit Id 169Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cooper Bar PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Diamond Drill MineSilver, GoldOccurrence
Idaho Con. Copper Co.SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Bird in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 4 hail. 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
July 2010HailWhite Bird-Law enforcement reports golf ball sized hail in the Whitebird city limits.
August 2010HailWhite Bird-A trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail that he had to use a snow shovel to clear the accumulations off his deck. He also reported 0.50 inches of rain with the storm.
July 2004HailWhite Bird-no account filed
July 2004HailWhite Bird-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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
Copperville1.4 miles10
Canfield6.5 miles10
Taylor6.8 miles10
Slate Creek8.6 miles11
Joseph9.7 miles8
Shells Lick9.9 miles10
Mexican Place11.5 miles9
Fenn14.1 miles8

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 White BirdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510724The 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 398345. 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.