Valley County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,720 ft 2,965 m8,010 ft 2,440 m7,150 ft 2,180 m5,430 ft 1,655 m3,720 ft 1,135 m2,860 ft 870 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
Valley County averages about 6,510 ft (1,985 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,860 ft on the north side to 9,720 ft on Big Baldy.
Average elevation
6,510 ft 1,985 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,720 ft 2,963 m
on Big Baldy
Lowest
2,860 ft 870 m
on the north side
Valley County spans about 6,860 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 | 6,510 ft1,985 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Big Baldy (NGS survey height) | 9,720 ft2,963 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 2,860 ft870 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
70 mi west to east through McCall.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 12,777 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,665.1 sq mi + 68.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- 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
- Custer County7,600 ft
- Lemhi County6,930 ft
- Valley County6,510 ft
- Boise County5,520 ft
- Idaho County5,120 ft
- Adams County4,790 ft
- Gem County3,570 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho6th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States83rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Big Baldy9,720 ft
- Mormon Mountain9,551 ft
- Cape Horn Mountain9,537 ft
- Center Mountain9,329 ft
- Artillery Dome9,310 ft
All 5 towns in Valley County by typical elevation
- McCall5,040 ft
- Yellow Pine4,990 ft
- Donnelly4,870 ft
- Cascade4,780 ft
- Smiths Ferry4,620 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.