Shoshone County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,690 ft 2,345 m6,300 ft 1,920 m5,610 ft 1,710 m4,220 ft 1,285 m2,830 ft 860 m2,130 ft 650 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
Shoshone County averages about 4,260 ft (1,295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,130 ft on the west side to 7,694 ft on Illinois Peak.
Average elevation
4,260 ft 1,295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,694 ft 2,345 m
on Illinois Peak
Lowest
2,130 ft 650 m
on the west side
Shoshone County spans about 5,560 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 | 4,260 ft1,295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Illinois Peak (NGS survey height) | 7,694 ft2,345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,130 ft650 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Kellogg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 14,074 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,637.5 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mineral County, MT4,690 ft
- Shoshone County4,260 ft
- Sanders County, MT4,110 ft
- Clearwater County3,910 ft
- Bonner County3,290 ft
- Benewah County3,140 ft
- Kootenai County2,980 ft
- Latah County2,950 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho29th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States239th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Ward Peak7,317 ft
- South Butte6,998 ft
- Middle Sister Peak6,900 ft
- Stevens Peak6,842 ft
- Granite Peak6,823 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.