Bear Lake County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,960 ft 3,035 m8,930 ft 2,720 m8,410 ft 2,565 m7,370 ft 2,245 m6,330 ft 1,930 m5,810 ft 1,770 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bear Lake County averages about 6,860 ft (2,090 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,810 ft on the northwest side to 9,963 ft on Meade Peak.
Average elevation
6,860 ft 2,090 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,963 ft 3,037 m
on Meade Peak
Lowest
5,810 ft 1,770 m
on the northwest side
Bear Lake County spans about 4,150 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 | 6,860 ft2,090 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Meade Peak (NGS survey height) | 9,963 ft3,037 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 5,810 ft1,770 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
39 mi south to north through Montpelier.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 6,779 2024 est.
- Land area
- 975.7 sq mi + 73.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.9 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Middle Rocky Mountains 98%
- Drains to
- Great Salt Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lincoln County, WY7,410 ft
- Rich County, UT6,920 ft
- Bear Lake County6,860 ft
- Caribou County6,520 ft
- Franklin County5,830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho3rd highest of 44
- Counties in the United States71st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sherman Peak9,691 ft
- Paris Peak9,560 ft
- Midnight Mountain9,330 ft
- Hawks Peak9,083 ft
- Soda Peak8,925 ft
All 6 towns in Bear Lake County by typical elevation
- Bennington6,050 ft
- Georgetown6,030 ft
- Bloomington5,970 ft
- St. Charles5,970 ft
- Montpelier5,960 ft
- Paris5,960 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, 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.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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 county.
- 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, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.