Lapwai, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,250 ft 380 m1,190 ft 365 m1,080 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m920 ft 280 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
Lapwai sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 960–1,050 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the north side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Lapwai spans about 440 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 920 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lapwai | 960 ft295 m |
| Airport (LWS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi west of the city limits | 1,442 ft440 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 1,249 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,652 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4049° N, 116.8049° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Lewiston/nez Perce County (LWS) 1,442 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 83540
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Reubens3,530 ft
- Genesee2,690 ft
- Culdesac1,670 ft
- Sweetwater1,410 ft
- Lewiston1,360 ft
- Juliaetta1,190 ft
- Clarkston Heights-Vineland, WA1,160 ft
- Lapwai970 ft
- West Clarkston-Highland, WA880 ft
- Asotin, WA830 ft
- Clarkston, WA830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaholowest of 234
- Towns in Nez Perce Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cottonwood Butte, Idaho County5,739 ft
- Craig Mountain5,330 ft
- Moscow Mountain4,987 ft
- McGary Butte4,461 ft
- Tamarack Ridge4,300 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.