Whitman, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Touchet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99362. It stands on West Little Walla Walla River. The Survey maps it on the College Place quadrangle. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Whitman within Walla Walla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1919 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:125000
1921 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS College Place quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whitman in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Whitman Mission National Historic Site	EDGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Whitman: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Davin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Davin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jessee and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Loos Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Welch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitman in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Hail	Whitman	$5,000	In addition to dime-sized hail, strong winds estimated at more than 45 mph downed several trees at a farm just west of Whitman.
December 2017	Flood	Whitman	-	A very wet weather system brought heavy rain to the northern Blue Mountains on December 29th and 30th. Snow levels were above 7000 feet with rain amounts of 3 to 4 inches. This resulted in rapid rises in streams and creeks draining the Blue Mountains, especially in Walla Walla and Columbia Counties. The Walla Walla River near Touchet rose above flood stage on December 30, crested at 14.2 feet (flood stage is 13.0 feet) and then receded below flood stage on December 31st.

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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
Waiilatpo (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Dixie Crossing	3.3 miles	11
Sudbury	3.4 miles	11
Pedigo	3.4 miles	11
Mojonnier	3.7 miles	11
Calhounville	4.2 miles	11
Garrett	4.6 miles	11
Stateline	5.0 miles	11

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 Whitman	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989129	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 1511479. 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.