White Bird Idaho Map

About White Bird, Idaho

White Bird is a locality in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. It is a small community with a population of 83. The population density is 493.0 people per km². White Bird is located at 45.7616°N, 116.3007°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. White Bird is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 83554.

White Bird occupies a deep, narrow trench where the earth seems to have parted to make room for the persistent, rhythmic flow of White Bird Creek. It lies 56.8 miles southeast of Lewiston, ID (from Lewiston, ID: bearing 143°T), and is situated 14.3 miles southwest of Grangeville. The landscape is defined by rugged, sun-bleached slopes that rise sharply from the valley floor, their surfaces textured with stubborn bunchgrass and the occasional skeleton of a cedar tree. To the east, the distant summits of the Bitterroot Range shimmer against the horizon like a faint, jagged promise of higher ground, while the immediate geography is marked by the steep, shadowed creases of Baker Gulch. Only three miles away, the quiet surface of Swartz Pond reflects the high, hard light of the inland sky, providing a rare, still counterpoint to the restless movement of the local waterways that carve through this arid, dramatic terrain.

White Bird holds the weight of a complex history, its soil having witnessed the echoes of conflict and the quiet perseverance of those who carved a living from the canyon’s edge. The local economy remains tethered to the land, drawing sustenance from ranching and the seasonal cycles of agriculture that define the pace of life in this isolated corridor. Visitors and locals alike find their way to the Lower Salmon River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a nearby expanse that preserves the raw, unadorned character of the canyon’s precipitous banks. Life here moves in accordance with the shifting intensity of the sun, and there is a distinct, quiet dignity in the way White Bird maintains its solitude, indifferent to the hurried progress of the wider world beyond the canyon walls.

About This White Bird Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of White Bird, Idaho. Coordinates: 45.761551, -116.300697. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for White Bird includes the ZIP code (83554), telephone area code (208), county seat of Idaho County (Grangeville), and school district assignment (Mountain View School District 244).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.