Council, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,100 ft 945 m3,040 ft 925 m3,020 ft 920 m2,960 ft 905 m2,910 ft 890 m2,890 ft 880 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
Council sits at about 2,940 ft (895 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,940 ft 895 m
most residents: 2,910–2,990 ft
Lowest
2,890 ft 880 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,100 ft 945 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,950 ft 900 m
all land inside city limits
Council spans about 210 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 | 2,940 ft895 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,100 ft945 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 2,890 ft880 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Council | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Airport (U82) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,966 ft904 m |
| Average of all land | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Nearest peak Council Mountain, 7.7 mi east of the city limits (NGS survey) | 8,130 ft2,478 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adams County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 975 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 924 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7299° N, 116.4382° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Weiser River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Council Municipal (U82) 2,966 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 83612
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McCall5,040 ft
- Donnelly4,870 ft
- Cascade4,780 ft
- Smiths Ferry4,620 ft
- New Meadows3,870 ft
- Council2,940 ft
- Cambridge2,660 ft
- Halfway, OR2,650 ft
- Midvale2,540 ft
- Richland, OR2,210 ft
- Weiser2,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho138th highest of 234
- Towns in Adams Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Council Mountain8,130 ft
- Lone Tree7,910 ft
- Brundage Mountain7,800 ft
- Summers Point7,730 ft
- No Business Mountain7,344 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).
- 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.