Culdesac Idaho Map

About Culdesac, Idaho

Culdesac is a locality in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States. It is a small community with a population of 413. The population density is 715.1 people per km². Culdesac is located at 46.3746°N, 116.6732°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. Culdesac is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 83524.

Culdesac occupies a quiet, sun-drenched corridor where the earth seems to exhale in long, grassy sighs toward the horizon. It lies 16.7 miles east of Lewiston, ID (from Lewiston, ID: bearing 100°T), and is situated 19.6 miles east of Clarkston Heights-Vineland. Lapwai Creek carves a narrow, rhythmic path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the pale, hard light that defines this high-plains landscape. To the west, the silhouette of Culdesac Hill rises as a singular, steadfast sentinel above the surrounding prairie, while the deeper depressions of Half Moon Draw fracture the land into subtle, shadowed pockets. The air here holds a crisp, dry clarity, smelling faintly of bunchgrass and the cooling dust of late afternoon, a scent that lingers long after the sun has dipped below the ragged edge of the fields.

Culdesac emerged from the ambitions of the railroad era, its layout dictated by the iron tracks that once drew the lifeblood of commerce through this remote, productive acreage. The local economy remains tethered to the patient labor of the soil, with agriculture and grain production anchoring the daily movements of those who live and work among the silos. While the broader currents of the region flow toward the distant, managed waters of Dworshak Reservoir or the protected currents of the Clearwater River, Culdesac maintains a distinct, inward-facing stillness. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, unadorned cadence, where the passage of a harvest season or the shifting intensity of the light is enough to mark the turning of the year.

About This Culdesac Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Culdesac, Idaho. Coordinates: 46.37461, -116.673204. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Culdesac includes the ZIP code (83524), telephone area code (208), county seat of Nez Perce County (Lewiston), and school district assignment (Culdesac Joint School District 342).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.