Bliss, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,300 ft 1,005 m3,240 ft 985 m3,200 ft 975 m3,140 ft 955 m3,070 ft 935 m3,040 ft 925 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
Bliss sits at about 3,270 ft (995 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,270 ft 995 m
most residents: 3,240–3,290 ft
Lowest
3,040 ft 925 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,300 ft 1,005 m
on the east side
Average
3,240 ft 990 m
all land inside city limits
Bliss spans about 260 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 | 3,270 ft995 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 3,300 ft1,005 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 3,040 ft925 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bliss | 3,260 ft995 m |
| Airport (GNG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi east of the city limits | 3,732 ft1,138 m |
| Average of all land | 3,240 ft990 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,270 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.9 °F96.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (89.9 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Gooding County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 265 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 359 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9268° N, 114.9495° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Gooding Municipal (GNG) 3,732 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 83314
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairfield5,070 ft
- Shoshone3,970 ft
- Castleford3,870 ft
- Jerome3,770 ft
- Buhl3,750 ft
- Gooding3,570 ft
- Wendell3,440 ft
- Bliss3,270 ft
- Hagerman2,980 ft
- Glenns Ferry2,570 ft
- Hammett2,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho128th highest of 234
- Towns in Gooding County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Smoky Dome10,096 ft
- Elk Ridge8,540 ft
- Cannonball Mountain8,320 ft
- Bennett Mountain7,441 ft
- Davis Mountain6,810 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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.