Garden Valley, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,790 ft 1,155 m3,590 ft 1,095 m3,490 ft 1,065 m3,300 ft 1,005 m3,100 ft 945 m3,000 ft 915 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Garden Valley sits at about 3,080 ft (940 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,080 ft 940 m
most residents: 3,070–3,420 ft
Lowest
3,000 ft 915 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,790 ft 1,155 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,200 ft 975 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Garden Valley spans about 790 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 | 3,080 ft940 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,790 ft1,155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garden Valley | 3,140 ft960 m |
| Average of all land | 3,200 ft975 m |
| Nearest peak Hawley Mountain, Boise County, 4.9 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,304 ft2,226 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,080 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.3 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.5 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Boise County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 377 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0899° N, 115.9521° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Payette River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 83622
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Smiths Ferry4,620 ft
- Placerville4,350 ft
- Lowman4,140 ft
- Robie Creek3,930 ft
- Idaho City3,910 ft
- Banks3,610 ft
- Avimor3,300 ft
- Crouch3,120 ft
- Garden Valley3,080 ft
- Hidden Springs2,910 ft
- Horseshoe Bend2,630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho134th highest of 234
- Towns in Boise County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Peak8,135 ft
- Sunset Mountain7,873 ft
- Hawley Mountain, Boise County7,304 ft
- Packer John Mountain7,080 ft
- Dry Buck Mountain6,512 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Garden Valley is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.