Star, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,780 ft 845 m2,690 ft 820 m2,650 ft 805 m2,560 ft 780 m2,480 ft 755 m2,430 ft 740 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
Star sits at about 2,470 ft (755 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,470 ft 755 m
most residents: 2,460–2,500 ft
Lowest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the west side
Highest
2,780 ft 845 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,500 ft 765 m
all land inside city limits
Star spans about 350 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 | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Star | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Airport (MAN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi south of the city limits | 2,537 ft773 m |
| Average of all land | 2,500 ft765 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ada and Canyon counties, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 18,208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,456 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6921° N, 116.4935° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Nampa Municipal (MAN) 2,537 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 83616 83669
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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
- Garden City2,610 ft
- Meridian2,590 ft
- Eagle2,570 ft
- Nampa2,490 ft
- Star2,470 ft
- Caldwell2,420 ft
- Middleton2,410 ft
- Emmett2,380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho175th highest of 234
- Towns in Ada Countylowest 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.