Butte County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,200 ft 3,720 m10,350 ft 3,155 m9,420 ft 2,870 m7,560 ft 2,305 m5,700 ft 1,740 m4,770 ft 1,455 m
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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
Butte County averages about 5,990 ft (1,825 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,770 ft on the east side to 12,202 ft on Diamond Peak.
Average elevation
5,990 ft 1,825 m
all land inside the county
Highest
12,202 ft 3,719 m
on Diamond Peak
Lowest
4,770 ft 1,455 m
on the east side
Butte County spans about 7,430 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 | 5,990 ft1,825 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Diamond Peak (NGS survey height) | 12,202 ft3,719 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 4,770 ft1,455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
66 mi south to north through Arco.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 2,735 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,236.5 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Northern Rocky Mountains 54%, Columbia Plateau 46%
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Custer County7,600 ft
- Lemhi County6,930 ft
- Clark County6,450 ft
- Blaine County6,140 ft
- Butte County5,990 ft
- Bingham County5,130 ft
- Jefferson County4,870 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho12th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States110th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Diamond Peak12,202 ft
- Saddle Mountain10,813 ft
- Hawley Mountain9,753 ft
- Jumpoff Peak8,980 ft
- Appendicitis Hill8,528 ft
All 3 towns in Butte County by typical elevation
- Moore5,470 ft
- Arco5,330 ft
- Butte City5,320 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.