Nez Perce County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,350 ft 1,630 m4,190 ft 1,280 m3,610 ft 1,100 m2,460 ft 750 m1,300 ft 395 m720 ft 220 m
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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
Nez Perce County averages about 2,590 ft (790 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 720 ft on the northwest side to 5,350 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,590 ft 790 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,350 ft 1,630 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Nez Perce County spans about 4,630 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 | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 5,350 ft1,630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through Lewiston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 42,847 2024 est.
- Land area
- 848.3 sq mi + 8.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Idaho County5,120 ft
- Wallowa County, OR4,470 ft
- Clearwater County3,910 ft
- Lewis County3,440 ft
- Latah County2,950 ft
- Asotin County, WA2,810 ft
- Nez Perce County2,590 ft
- Whitman County, WA2,090 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho42nd highest of 44
- Counties in the United States465th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Craig Mountain5,330 ft
- Gold Hill, Nez Perce County4,090 ft
- Culdesac Hill3,580 ft
- Lewiston Hill2,780 ft
- Pigeon Roost2,340 ft
All 5 towns in Nez Perce County by typical elevation
- Culdesac1,670 ft
- Sweetwater1,410 ft
- Lewiston1,360 ft
- Peck1,130 ft
- Lapwai970 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.
- 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 46.4240° N, 117.0226° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.