Canyon County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,090 ft 940 m2,860 ft 870 m2,740 ft 835 m2,510 ft 765 m2,280 ft 695 m2,170 ft 660 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
Canyon County averages about 2,480 ft (755 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,170 ft on the northwest side to 3,087 ft on Pickles Butte.
Average elevation
2,480 ft 755 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,087 ft 941 m
on Pickles Butte
Lowest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the northwest side
Canyon County spans about 920 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 | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Pickles Butte (NGS survey height) | 3,087 ft941 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
35 mi south to north through Nampa.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 266,892 2024 est.
- Land area
- 587.0 sq mi + 16.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 455 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Owyhee County4,800 ft
- Malheur County, OR4,310 ft
- Gem County3,570 ft
- Ada County3,050 ft
- Payette County2,590 ft
- Canyon County2,480 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaholowest of 44
- Counties in the United States492nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pickles Butte3,087 ft
- Hat Butte3,077 ft
- Walters Butte2,941 ft
- Powers Butte2,900 ft
- McElroy Butte2,800 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.