Explore Hooper, Washington, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hooper, Washington. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Washington or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Hooper.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Hooper |
| State | Washington (WA) |
| County | Whitman County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 46.774872 |
| Longitude | -118.148571 |
| Population | 100 |
| Density | 4.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 99333 |
| Area Code | 509 |
| County Seat | Colfax |
Hooper emerges from the arid expanse of the high desert, where the Palouse River carves a deliberate, winding path through the basalt bedrock. It lies 45.9 miles west of Pullman, WA (from Pullman, WA: bearing 272°T), and is situated 34.4 miles east of Connell. The landscape surrounding Hooper is defined by the stark, volcanic architecture of Layman Canyon and the vast, sun-bleached horizons that stretch toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Mountains. Only two miles distant, the quiet surface of Dyer Lake reflects the immense, cloud-streaked sky, while the nearby Columbia Plateau Trail offers a singular, gravel-crushed artery for those traversing this rugged terrain. Sunlight here has a way of bleaching the color from the dry bunchgrass until the earth takes on the pale, brittle hue of old parchment, yet the air remains sharp and clean, carrying the faint, metallic scent of heated stone and distant rain.
Hooper maintains a quiet, enduring connection to the rhythms of dryland agriculture, where the seasonal cycle of wheat dictates the pace of existence. The history of Hooper is written in the rusted iron of abandoned rail lines and the sturdy, weathered silos that stand as sentinels over the surrounding fields. Residents recognize the persistent gravity of the geography, finding a rugged beauty in the sudden, dramatic descent of Palouse Falls, which marks the intersection of water and jagged stone seven miles away. Life in Hooper moves with the deliberate tempo of a place shaped by extreme shifts in temperature, where the community relies on the resilience of the soil and the deep, quiet isolation of the plateau to sustain its character.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hooper, Washington. Coordinates: 46.774872, -118.148571. 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 Hooper includes the ZIP code (99333), telephone area code (509), county seat of Whitman County (Colfax), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |