Melrose, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83541. The Survey maps it on the Peck quadrangle.

Melrose within Nez Perce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1924 USGS Kamiah quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Peck quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Melrose between 1992 and 2017, burning about 627 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None was 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	LEANING PINE
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	ANGEL JACK
8 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	RICHMOND PLACE
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	OLD MELROSE GRADE
4 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PECK
27 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	GROWLER
27 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	GROWLER POINT
27 August 1992	Smoking	5.5 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	MELROSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Melrose: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Peck Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
August 2008	Hail	Melrose	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
German Settlement	2.6 miles	9
Beeman	3.7 miles	9
Peck	4.9 miles	8
Eugene	5.7 miles	9
Gifford	5.9 miles	9
Chesley	6.6 miles	9
Big George	6.8 miles	10
Lenore	8.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 376171. 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.