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.
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
Dr. Wilson Foskett Home and Drugstorelisted 2005
White Bird Gradelisted 1974- White Bird Battlefieldlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresWhite 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 91 | |
| 2020 | 83 | -8 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS White Bird quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS White Bird quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
68 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Coeur d'Alene Field Office | HOOTS |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | LOST RAIL |
| 30 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Coeur d'Alene Field Office | BETTY CR |
| 25 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Cottonwood Field Office | DOUMECQ |
| 16 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | GREGORY |
| 9 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Craig Mountain Area Office | MILE MARKER 222 |
| 8 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | GREGORY CREEK |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | 75 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | BANNER RIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Pit Id 169 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cooper Bar Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Diamond Drill Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Idaho Con. Copper Co. | Silver | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | White Bird | - | Law enforcement reports golf ball sized hail in the Whitebird city limits. |
| August 2010 | Hail | White 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 2004 | Hail | White Bird | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | White Bird | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copperville | 1.4 miles | 10 | |
| Canfield | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Taylor | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Slate Creek | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Joseph | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Shells Lick | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Mexican Place | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fenn | 14.1 miles | 8 |
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 Bird | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1510724 | 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 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.




