Fairfield, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,090 ft 1,550 m5,080 ft 1,550 m5,080 ft 1,550 m5,070 ft 1,545 m5,060 ft 1,545 m5,060 ft 1,540 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Fairfield sits at about 5,070 ft (1,545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,070 ft 1,545 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
5,060 ft 1,540 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,090 ft 1,550 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,070 ft 1,545 m
all land inside city limits
Fairfield spans about 30 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 | 5,070 ft1,545 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 5,090 ft1,550 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 5,060 ft1,540 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairfield | 5,070 ft1,545 m |
| Average of all land | 5,070 ft1,545 m |
| Nearest peak Cannonball Mountain, 8.4 mi northeast of the city limits | 8,320 ft2,535 m |
Altitude Effects
What 5,070 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.6 °F94.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.8 inHg (84.1 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Camas County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 484 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 553 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3466° N, 114.7917° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Camas Creek → Big Wood River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 83327
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sun Valley6,000 ft
- Ketchum5,840 ft
- Hailey5,310 ft
- Bellevue5,190 ft
- Fairfield5,070 ft
- Gannett4,920 ft
- Shoshone3,970 ft
- Gooding3,570 ft
- Bliss3,270 ft
- Hagerman2,980 ft
- Glenns Ferry2,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho34th highest of 234
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Smoky Dome10,096 ft
- Kelly Mountain8,830 ft
- Elk Ridge8,540 ft
- Cannonball Mountain8,320 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.