Myrtle, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83535. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Culdesac North quadrangle.

Myrtle within Nez Perce County

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.

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
1984 USGS Culdesac North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Myrtle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,909 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BOOM GROUNDS RR
23 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	TRAINBRIDG
18 September 2002	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	FISH HATCHERY
18 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Cottonwood Field Office	FISH HATCHERY
18 September 2002	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	ALL1705
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	COTTONWOOD
17 September 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	ARSON #2
9 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	299 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	MYRTLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myrtle in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
July 2012	Hail	Myrtle	$2,000	The hail caused numerous dents on vehicles.
February 2020	Debris Flow	Myrtle	$500	A rock slide was reported to Law Enforcement blocking one lane of Highway 12 near Myrtle.

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
Arrow	2.6 miles	10
Cherrylane	2.7 miles	10
Spalding	5.9 miles	10
Joseph	6.3 miles	10
North Lapwai	6.9 miles	10
Lapwai	7.6 miles	10
Agatha	8.0 miles	10
Willola	8.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396941. 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.

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.