Thompson Falls, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,740 ft 835 m2,640 ft 805 m2,590 ft 790 m2,490 ft 760 m2,400 ft 730 m2,350 ft 715 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
Thompson Falls sits at about 2,510 ft (765 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,510 ft 765 m
most residents: 2,410–2,600 ft
Lowest
2,350 ft 715 m
on the west side
Highest
2,740 ft 835 m
at the foot of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains
Average
2,550 ft 780 m
all land inside city limits
Thompson Falls spans about 390 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 | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thompson Falls | 2,550 ft775 m |
| Airport (THM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 2,467 ft752 m |
| Average of all land | 2,550 ft780 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sanders County, Montana, United States
- Population
- 1,526 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 951 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5972° N, 115.3443° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Northern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Pend Oreille River → Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Thompson Falls (THM) 2,467 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 59873
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- De Borgia3,760 ft
- Saltese3,440 ft
- Mullan, ID3,330 ft
- Haugan3,150 ft
- Wallace, ID2,750 ft
- St. Regis2,630 ft
- Thompson Falls2,510 ft
- Plains2,470 ft
- Weeksville2,460 ft
- Belknap2,400 ft
- Trout Creek2,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Montana438th highest of 497
- Towns in Sanders County6th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Headley7,430 ft
- Cherry Peak7,350 ft
- Graves Peak7,030 ft
- Big Hole Peak6,967 ft
- Clear Peak6,710 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.