Viola, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,890 ft 880 m2,820 ft 860 m2,780 ft 845 m2,710 ft 825 m2,640 ft 805 m2,600 ft 795 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Viola sits at about 2,750 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,750 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,620–2,750 ft
Lowest
2,600 ft 795 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,890 ft 880 m
at the foot of the Palouse Range
Average
2,730 ft 830 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Viola spans about 290 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 | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Palouse Range | 2,890 ft880 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,600 ft795 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Viola | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Airport (PUW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,567 ft782 m |
| Average of all land | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Nearest peak Moscow Mountain, 6.9 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,987 ft1,520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Latah County, Idaho, United States
- Population
- 135 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 134 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.8385° N, 117.0246° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Columbia Plateau
- Drains to
- Palouse River → Snake River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Pullman/moscow Regional (PUW) 2,567 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 83872
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Viola2,750 ft
- Onaway2,660 ft
- Moscow2,620 ft
- Troy2,590 ft
- Potlatch2,590 ft
- Pullman, WA2,530 ft
- Palouse, WA2,530 ft
- Princeton2,520 ft
- Garfield, WA2,500 ft
- Albion, WA2,250 ft
- Colfax, WA2,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Idaho146th highest of 234
- Towns in Latah County3rd highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mica Mountain5,050 ft
- Moscow Mountain4,987 ft
- West Dennis4,812 ft
- East Gold Hill4,681 ft
- Mission Mountain4,328 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Viola is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.