Caribou County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,960 ft 3,035 m8,700 ft 2,650 m8,060 ft 2,455 m6,790 ft 2,070 m5,530 ft 1,685 m4,890 ft 1,490 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
Caribou County averages about 6,520 ft (1,990 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,890 ft on the south side to 9,963 ft on Meade Peak.
Average elevation
6,520 ft 1,990 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,963 ft 3,037 m
on Meade Peak
Lowest
4,890 ft 1,490 m
on the south side
Caribou County spans about 5,070 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 | 6,520 ft1,990 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Meade Peak (NGS survey height) | 9,963 ft3,037 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 4,890 ft1,490 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
46 mi west to east through Soda Springs.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 7,239 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,764.2 sq mi + 34.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 63%, Middle Rocky Mountains 37%
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean 75%, Great Salt Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 25%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lincoln County, WY7,410 ft
- Bear Lake County6,860 ft
- Caribou County6,520 ft
- Bonneville County6,120 ft
- Franklin County5,830 ft
- Bannock County5,690 ft
- Bingham County5,130 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho5th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States82nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Meade Peak9,963 ft
- Bonneville Peak9,260 ft
- Draney Peak9,130 ft
- South Putnam Mountain8,953 ft
- Henry Peak8,335 ft
All 3 towns in Caribou County by typical elevation
- Soda Springs5,800 ft
- Grace5,530 ft
- Bancroft5,420 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.