Lincoln County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,940 ft 1,810 m5,370 ft 1,635 m5,080 ft 1,550 m4,510 ft 1,375 m3,940 ft 1,200 m3,660 ft 1,115 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lincoln County averages about 4,350 ft (1,325 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,660 ft on the west side to 5,940 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
4,350 ft 1,325 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,940 ft 1,810 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
3,660 ft 1,115 m
on the west side
Lincoln County spans about 2,280 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,350 ft1,325 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 5,940 ft1,810 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 3,660 ft1,115 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Shoshone.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 5,556 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,201.4 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean 50%, Monument Reservoir basin (does not reach the sea) 21%, Russian Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Camas County6,350 ft
- Blaine County6,140 ft
- Minidoka County4,380 ft
- Lincoln County4,350 ft
- Jerome County3,990 ft
- Gooding County3,890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho28th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States226th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Twin Oaks5,910 ft
- Spud Butte5,000 ft
- Sand Butte4,960 ft
- Broken Top Butte4,940 ft
- Kinzie Butte4,940 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.