Penawawa, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the LaCrosse census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99143. It lies in Penawawa Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ping quadrangle.

Penawawa within Whitman County

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.

1950 USGS Penawawa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ping quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:100000

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
Purrington	5.0 miles	10
Swift	5.2 miles	9
Dusty	7.5 miles	10
Peyton	7.9 miles	10
Shreck	10.5 miles	10
Jerita	10.8 miles	10
Almota	11.6 miles	13
Hay	12.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122595670

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 1511949. 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.