Bancroft, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,460 ft 1,665 m5,450 ft 1,660 m5,440 ft 1,660 m5,430 ft 1,655 m5,420 ft 1,650 m5,420 ft 1,650 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bancroft sits at about 5,420 ft (1,650 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,420 ft 1,650 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
5,420 ft 1,650 m
on the northwest side
Highest
5,460 ft 1,665 m
on the northeast side
Average
5,420 ft 1,655 m
all land inside city limits
Bancroft spans about 40 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 5,420 ft1,650 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 5,460 ft1,665 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 5,420 ft1,650 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bancroft | 5,420 ft1,650 m |
| Average of all land | 5,420 ft1,655 m |
| Nearest peak Petticoat Peak, 5.2 mi southwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 8,036 ft2,449 m |
Altitude Effects
What 5,420 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.9 °F94.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.5 inHg (83.0 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Caribou County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 314 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 435 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7202° N, 111.8858° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Portneuf River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 83217
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Georgetown6,030 ft
- Soda Springs5,800 ft
- Grace5,530 ft
- Bancroft5,420 ft
- Lava Hot Springs5,050 ft
- Downey4,870 ft
- McCammon4,770 ft
- Arimo4,740 ft
- Inkom4,550 ft
- Pocatello4,500 ft
- Chubbuck4,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho23rd highest of 234
- Towns in Caribou Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bonneville Peak9,260 ft
- Sedgwick Peak9,174 ft
- South Putnam Mountain8,953 ft
- Petticoat Peak8,036 ft
- Windy Ridge7,280 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,410 ft at 42.7204° N, 111.8785° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.