Lewiston, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 500 m1,420 ft 430 m1,300 ft 395 m1,070 ft 325 m840 ft 255 m720 ft 220 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
Lewiston sits at about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
most residents: 830–1,530 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
near the middle
Highest
1,650 ft 500 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside city limits
Lewiston spans about 930 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lewiston | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (LWS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,442 ft440 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 34,693 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.6 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,972 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4166° N, 117.0177° 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
- 83501
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Genesee2,690 ft
- Uniontown, WA2,600 ft
- Colton, WA2,580 ft
- Culdesac1,670 ft
- Sweetwater1,410 ft
- Lewiston1,360 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 Idaho226th highest of 234
- Towns in Nez Perce County3rd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Misery6,370 ft
- Cottonwood Butte, Idaho County5,739 ft
- Craig Mountain5,330 ft
- Moscow Mountain4,987 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 720 ft at 46.4243° N, 117.0235° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.