Payette County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

4,770 ft 1,455 m4,100 ft 1,250 m3,770 ft 1,150 m3,110 ft 945 m2,440 ft 745 m2,110 ft 645 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Payette County averages about 2,590 ft (790 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,110 ft on the northwest side to 4,770 ft on the northeast side.

Average elevation

2,590 ft 790 m

all land inside the county

Highest

4,770 ft 1,455 m

on the northeast side

Lowest

2,110 ft 645 m

on the northwest side

Payette County spans about 2,660 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 northeast side	4,770 ft1,455 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	2,110 ft645 m

Elevation profile, west to east

26 mi west to east through Payette.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Idaho, United States
Population: 27,662 2024 est.
Land area: 406.9 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
Density: 68 per sq mi
Time zone: Mountain UTC−7 / −6
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

Malheur County, OR4,310 ft
Washington County3,720 ft
Gem County3,570 ft
Payette County2,590 ft
Canyon County2,480 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Idaho43rd highest of 44
Counties in the United States468th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Hog Cove Butte3,770 ft

All 3 towns in Payette County by typical elevation

New Plymouth2,260 ft
Fruitland2,220 ft
Payette2,150 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.