Onaway, ID

Onaway is a city in Latah County, Idaho, United States. The 2020 census counted 196 residents. The name sources from the mill works at nearby Potlatch to the west, as workers would frequent the bars after work. When a wife called and asked where her husband was, she would be told he was "Onaway" home. A newcomer can read Onaway through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Onaway comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Onaway is located between Potlatch and Princeton on State Highway 6.