Buhl, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,870 ft 1,180 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,790 ft 1,155 m3,750 ft 1,140 m3,700 ft 1,125 m3,670 ft 1,120 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buhl sits at about 3,750 ft (1,145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,750 ft 1,145 m
most residents: 3,700–3,830 ft
Lowest
3,670 ft 1,120 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,870 ft 1,180 m
on the southeast side
Average
3,770 ft 1,150 m
all land inside city limits
Buhl spans about 200 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 | 3,750 ft1,145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 3,870 ft1,180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buhl | 3,770 ft1,150 m |
| Airport (U03) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi west of the city limits | 3,663 ft1,116 m |
| Average of all land | 3,770 ft1,150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,750 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.0 °F96.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.1 inHg (88.3 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 4,761 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,534 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5991° N, 114.7595° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Buhl Municipal (U03) 3,663 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 83316
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hollister4,520 ft
- Hansen4,020 ft
- Kimberly3,920 ft
- Castleford3,870 ft
- Filer3,780 ft
- Jerome3,770 ft
- Buhl3,750 ft
- Twin Falls3,720 ft
- Gooding3,570 ft
- Wendell3,440 ft
- Hagerman2,980 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho117th highest of 234
- Towns in Twin Falls County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Mountain8,830 ft
- Ellen D Mountain8,639 ft
- Gollaher Mountain8,157 ft
- Monument Peak, Cassia County8,065 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.