Nez Perce Reservation, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,640 ft 1,415 m3,670 ft 1,120 m3,190 ft 970 m2,220 ft 675 m1,250 ft 380 m760 ft 230 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nez Perce Reservation averages about 2,780 ft (850 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 760 ft on the northwest side to 4,643 ft on Mason Butte.
Average elevation
2,780 ft 850 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
4,643 ft 1,415 m
on Mason Butte
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the northwest side
Nez Perce Reservation spans about 3,880 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,780 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Mason Butte (NGS survey height) | 4,643 ft1,415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the northwest side | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
34 mi south to north through Orofino.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Idaho, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 18,403 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1,194.6 sq mi + 10.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau 99%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Flathead Reservation, MT3,960 ft
- Coeur d'Alene Reservation2,910 ft
- Nez Perce Reservation2,780 ft
- Umatilla Reservation, OR2,410 ft
- Spokane Reservation, WA2,290 ft
- Kalispel Reservation, WA2,150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Idaho3rd highest of 4
- Tribal lands in the United States127th highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mason Butte, Lewis County4,643 ft
- Big Butte, Idaho County3,890 ft
- Twin Buttes, Idaho County3,750 ft
- Culdesac Hill3,580 ft
- Mount Stewart1,930 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.