Explore Fairfield, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fairfield, 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 Fairfield.
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 | Fairfield |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County | Camas County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| Latitude | 43.346568 |
| Longitude | -114.791728 |
| Population | 441 |
| Density | 194.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 83327 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| County Seat | Fairfield |
| School District | Camas County School District 121 |
Fairfield emerges as a spare, quiet expanse where the high desert air carries the scent of sage and sun-baked earth across the vast reach of the Camas Prairie. It lies 45.2 miles north-northwest of Jerome, ID (from Jerome, ID: bearing 342°T), and is situated 26.7 miles west-southwest of Hailey. Soldier Creek traces a thin, dark line through the landscape, its waters cutting a path toward the horizon while the jagged, distant teeth of the Sawtooth Range sharpen the sky in the north. The light here possesses a singular, hard clarity that strips shadows to their essentials, illuminating the transition from open plains into the dense, pine-scented borders of the Sawtooth National Forest. In the stillness of the afternoon, the wind moves across the grasses with a persistent, dry rustle, grounding the observer in a geography defined by its immense, unadorned scale.
Fairfield sustains itself through the cycles of agriculture and the rhythms of a landscape that demands patience from those who work its soil. The local economy remains tethered to the harvest, with dusty trucks traversing the routes toward Mormon Reservoir, a vital anchor of water in this semi-arid basin. History here is written in the homesteads and the enduring resilience of a population that has long navigated the harsh winters and the fleeting, intense blooms of the prairie spring. Life in Fairfield moves with a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the frantic noise of more crowded latitudes, finding its purpose instead in the seasonal turning of the fields and the quiet endurance of the high country.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairfield, Idaho. Coordinates: 43.346568, -114.791728. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Fairfield includes the ZIP code (83327), telephone area code (208), county seat of Camas County (Fairfield), and school district assignment (Camas County School District 121).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |