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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1988 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Interior Grain Tramway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Snake River Canyon, 2 mi. N of Wawawai, Pullman, 99113
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. site
- Also known as. Grain Production Properties in Eastern Washington MPS
- Census division. Uniontown
- National Register reference number. 88001538 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Interior Grain Tramway between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11,756 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 303 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | WAWAWAI CANYON |
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,453 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | SNAKE RIVER FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Interior Grain Tramway: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Point Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wawawai Canyon | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pullman, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Pullman | $1,100,000 | Missouri Flat Creek experienced a Flash Flood which resulted in the North Grand Avenue business district being inundated with up to 4 feet of water in places. Numerous businesses were damaged and parked cars were floated and carried away. Pullman police and fire crews made numerous water rescues of stranded customers and employees of at least 4 businesses including the rescue of 16 people from one business. There were no known injuries and by the next morning the creek had receded back into it's banks. |
| February 1999 | Flash Flood | Pullman | $250,000 | Rapid snowmelt and heavy rain lead to rising creeks and streams across Whitman County, which lead to high water levels on the North Fork of the Palouse River. Several homes and business had reports of flooding. |
| December 1998 | Flash Flood | Pullman | $50,000 | Rapid snowmelt and 2-4 inches of rain lead to flooding of small creeks and streams around Pullman. Portions of the WSU campus exerienced flooding, while several downtown businesses and city streets were indunated by a foot of water. Portions of Highway 195 were closed. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Pullman | $30,000 | South Fork Palouse River flooding, with minor to moderate flooding in areas across Pullman, including downtown, Grand Avenue, and the area around the City Playfields. Water covered N Grand north of NW Windus St. NE Morton St by Reaney pool was flooded across all lanes. Grand Avenue closed from Nye to Ritchie. Main Street from Spring to Pine was closed. Morton Street near Reaney Park closed due to flooding. |
| September 2019 | Flood | Pullman | $1,000 | Brief heavy rain from a thunderstorm pooled at an intersection in downtown Pullman apparently due to leaf clogged storm drains. The water pooled about 9 inches deep in the intersection which was sufficient to cause minor first floor flooding in a number of adjacent business establishments. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | $500 | Observer reported 1 inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off roof. Pullman, Moscow Airport recorded a max gusts of 67 MPH. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | $500 | Downed tree was reported. Pullman, Moscow Airport recorded a gust of 67 MPH. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Pullman | - | Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to water over roadway on North Grand by Mobil Station and Cougar County Drive In.. The Pullman Airport recorded 1.15 inches of rain. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Pullman | - | Water over roadway on Fairmount Drive between Grand and Planet Fitness reported. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | Mesonet station DW6220 in Pullman reported a gust of 69 MPH. |
| May 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Pullman | - | A small funnel cloud dissipated shortly after formation. There is no indication that the circulation ever made contact with the ground. The location is estimated from social media shared by the media. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Pullman | - | A member of the public reported and submitted a picture of a funnel cloud in southeast Pullman, Washington. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | A Mesonet station in Pullman, Washington measured a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | Strong outflow winds from a thunderstorm contributed to several downed power lines in Pullman with about 60 customers losing power. Six trees fell on roads, three trees fell on cars, and two power lines were downed. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Pullman | - | 3/4 inch hail reported by sheriff's office |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | 60 mph gust |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | 60 mph gust |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Pullman | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pullman | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pullman | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001538 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Whitman County | All 39 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.