Ponderay, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,320 ft 705 m2,250 ft 685 m2,220 ft 675 m2,160 ft 660 m2,100 ft 640 m2,070 ft 630 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
Ponderay sits at about 2,130 ft (650 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,130 ft 650 m
most residents: 2,120–2,140 ft
Lowest
2,070 ft 630 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,320 ft 705 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,130 ft 650 m
all land inside city limits
Ponderay spans about 250 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 | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,320 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 2,070 ft630 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ponderay | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Airport (SZT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi west of the city limits | 2,131 ft650 m |
| Average of all land | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Nearest peak Gold Mountain, 4.9 mi south of the city limits | 4,180 ft1,275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bonner County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 2,011 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 685 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.3055° N, 116.5338° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Pend Oreille River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Sandpoint (SZT) 2,131 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 83852 83864
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hope2,770 ft
- Coolin2,520 ft
- East Hope2,180 ft
- Priest River2,170 ft
- Ponderay2,130 ft
- Kootenai2,120 ft
- Oldtown2,120 ft
- Sandpoint2,100 ft
- Laclede2,100 ft
- Clark Fork2,090 ft
- Dover2,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho213th highest of 234
- Towns in Bonner County6th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blacktail Mountain4,961 ft
- Gold Cup Mountain4,670 ft
- Grouse Mountain4,240 ft
- Gold Mountain4,180 ft
- Jasper Mountain3,920 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.