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Elk City Idaho Map

Explore Elk City, Idaho, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Elk City, Idaho

How to Use This Elk City, Idaho Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Elk City, Idaho. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Idaho or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Elk City.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Elk City
State	Idaho (ID)
County	Idaho County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	45.826853
Longitude	-115.436794
Population	170
Density	26.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	83525
Area Code	208
County Seat	Grangeville
School District	Mountain View School District 244

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About Elk City, Idaho

Elk City is a locality in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. It is a small community with a population of 170. The population density is 26.2 people per km². Elk City is located at 45.8269°N, 115.4368°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 83525.

Elk City remains an isolated outpost where the crisp, thin air holds the scent of damp pine and cold earth. It lies 86.0 miles east-southeast of Lewiston, ID (from Lewiston, ID: bearing 118°T), and is situated 33.7 miles east-southeast of Grangeville. Elk Creek carves a persistent path through the landscape, its waters running clear and sharp over dark stones as they mirror the dense, towering timber of the surrounding Nezperce National Forest. Beyond the immediate canopy, the jagged, distant silhouettes of the Bitterroot Range rise against the horizon like ancient, serrated teeth. The terrain here is defined by sudden shifts in elevation, where the deep descent into Buffalo Gulch offers a stark contrast to the quiet, reflective surface of American Hill Lake nearby. Light in this high country does not merely illuminate; it clarifies, stripping away the superfluous until only the raw, tectonic bones of the earth remain.

Gold fever first brought men to Elk City, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned shafts and the persistent, quiet labor of those who remain tethered to the land’s mineral wealth. The local economy has long since shifted from the frantic energy of the mining camps to a slower, more deliberate existence centered on the rhythms of the woods and the seasonal cycles of the forest. Residents navigate the rugged geography with a practiced ease, finding their way toward the Elk Creek Trail to traverse the wilder reaches of the backcountry. Life here is measured by the steady endurance of the timber and the seasonal drift of snow that isolates the valley from the wider world. It is a place of profound stillness, where the modern pace of life is discarded in favor of the persistent, unyielding demands of the wilderness.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Nezperce National Forest (National Forest) — 0.2 mi, 020° N · 2.2M acres
American River Historic Sites District Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.5 mi, 010° N
East Fork American River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 2.7 mi, 009° N
Anderson Butte National Recreation Trail (National Trail) — 3.7 mi, 054° NE · 99 acres
Red River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 160° S
Dutch Oven Creek Streamside Zone Withdrawal (National Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 272° W · 1 acres
O'Hara Creek Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 9.1 mi, 332° NW
Gospel-Hump Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 10.8 mi, 230° SW · 206k acres
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.0 mi, 038° NE · 1.3M acres
Middle Fork Clearwater, Idaho Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 16.7 mi, 005° N · 62k acres
Salmon, Idaho Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 21.0 mi, 161° S · 41k acres
Payette National Forest (National Forest) — 21.2 mi, 161° S · 2.3M acres
Upper Gospel Lake Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 28.4 mi, 241° SW
Buckskin Bill's Cabin (Museum) — 28.6 mi, 183° S
Wilderness Gateway Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 35.8 mi, 010° N
Shorts Bar Pictographs (Historic Ruins) — 41.4 mi, 273° W
Cooper's Ferry / Nipéhe (Historic Ruins) — 46.5 mi, 277° W
B 23 Crash Site (Monument) — 50.1 mi, 203° SW
Pittsburg Rockart Interpertive Site (Attraction) — 51.6 mi, 255° W
Kirkwood Ranch Museum (Museum) — 54.2 mi, 251° W
155 Fishing/swimming Hole (Attraction) — 54.7 mi, 032° NE
Earl Parrot's Cabin (Attraction) — 56.0 mi, 139° SE
Deep Creek Massacre (Monument) — 58.8 mi, 267° W
Clearwater Museum (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 320° NW
Yellow Pine Elementary School (Museum) — 59.8 mi, 183° S
Don Mackey Memorial (Monument) — 64.7 mi, 061° NE
Art City (Gallery) — 67.7 mi, 064° NE
Concretehenge (Public Artwork) — 68.6 mi, 062° NE
Hamilton Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 68.8 mi, 064° NE
Lapwai State Game Farm (Nature Reserve) — 75.4 mi, 301° NW

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