Meridian, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,780 ft 850 m2,710 ft 825 m2,680 ft 815 m2,610 ft 795 m2,540 ft 775 m2,510 ft 765 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Meridian sits at about 2,590 ft (790 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,590 ft 790 m
most residents: 2,560–2,670 ft
Lowest
2,510 ft 765 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,780 ft 850 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,610 ft 795 m
all land inside city limits
Meridian spans about 270 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 | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,780 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Meridian | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Airport (BOI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the city limits | 2,872 ft875 m |
| Average of all land | 2,610 ft795 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ada County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 139,740 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,679 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6121° N, 116.3915° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field (BOI) 2,872 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 83642 83646
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Avimor3,300 ft
- Hidden Springs2,910 ft
- Boise City2,710 ft
- Kuna2,690 ft
- Garden City2,610 ft
- Meridian2,590 ft
- Eagle2,570 ft
- Nampa2,490 ft
- Star2,470 ft
- Caldwell2,420 ft
- Middleton2,410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho161st highest of 234
- Towns in Ada County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Shafer Butte7,595 ft
- Hawley Mountain, Boise County7,304 ft
- Mount Heinen6,347 ft
- Warm Springs Point6,050 ft
- Shaw Mountain5,907 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.