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.
Population over time
2 figuresCuldesac 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 380 | |
| 2020 | 413 | +33 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Culdesac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Culdesac South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
77 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | BOYER |
| 7 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ROCK CREEK |
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | 80 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | LYLEGULCH |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | LAPWAI |
| 29 September 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | TRACK FIRE |
| 29 September 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | TRACK FIRE #2 |
| 25 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | PRIME |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nez Perce Tribe | EZEKIEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culdesac | $1,000 | The Nez Perce County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down in the town of Culdesac. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culdesac | $500 | A member of law enforcement reported trees down on highway 395 at Mission Creek Road which is 3 miles west of Culdesac, ID. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Culdesac | $500 | A member of law enforcement reported trees down on highway 395 around 2 miles east southeast of Culdesac, Idaho. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Culdesac | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Culdesac | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Culdesac | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Culdesac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1522566 | The 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.




