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Culdesac, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83524. The Survey maps it on the Culdesac South quadrangle. 413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,644 feet above sea level.

Culdesac within Nez Perce County

Population over time

2 figures

Culdesac grew from 380 to 413 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010380
2020413+33 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Culdesac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,555 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNez Perce TribeBOYER
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK CREEK
6 September 1995Natural80 acresNez Perce TribeLYLEGULCH
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLAPWAI
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNez Perce TribeTRACK FIRE
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNez Perce TribeTRACK FIRE #2
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNez Perce TribePRIME
24 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresNez Perce TribeEZEKIEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Culdesac: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culdesac in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCuldesac$1,000The Nez Perce County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down in the town of Culdesac.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCuldesac$500A member of law enforcement reported trees down on highway 395 at Mission Creek Road which is 3 miles west of Culdesac, ID.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCuldesac$500A member of law enforcement reported trees down on highway 395 around 2 miles east southeast of Culdesac, Idaho.
July 2012Flash FloodCuldesac-A portion of Highway 95 was covered in mud and debris when a flash flood caused a section of the hillside to collapse down the hillside into the highway. The water, mud, and debris flowed along the highway in a typically dry Lapwai Creek bed and eventually accumulating deep enough to flow back across the highway. There was no damage to the highway however, it took several hours for the highway department to remove the mud and debris from the roadway.
July 2012HailCuldesac-no account filed
June 2007HailCuldesac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nez Perce 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jacques2.9 miles9
Bundy4.6 miles9
Sweetwater6.3 miles9
Chesley6.6 miles9
Lapwai7.3 miles10
Gifford7.8 miles9
Eugene8.0 miles9
Beeman8.1 miles9

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 CuldesacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1522566The 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 396352. 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.