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Sweetwater Idaho Map

Explore Sweetwater, 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 Sweetwater, Idaho

How to Use This Sweetwater, Idaho Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sweetwater, 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 Sweetwater.

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	Sweetwater
State	Idaho (ID)
County	Nez Perce County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	46.372386
Longitude	-116.792928
Population	155
Density	50.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	83540
Area Code	208
County Seat	Lewiston
School District	Lapwai School District 341

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About Sweetwater, Idaho

Sweetwater is a locality in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States. It is a small community with a population of 155. The population density is 50.2 people per km². Sweetwater is located at 46.3724°N, 116.7929°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 83540.

Sweetwater claims its space upon a landscape of weathered bunchgrass and undulating prairie, where the silver ribbon of Lapwai Creek carves a persistent path through the earth. It lies 11.1 miles east-southeast of Lewiston, ID (from Lewiston, ID: bearing 106°T), and is situated 13.9 miles east of Clarkston Heights-Vineland. The air here holds a thin, crystalline quality that sharpens the edges of the horizon, where the distant, rounded rise of Thunder Hill serves as a solitary sentinel against the pale sky. To the west, the land descends toward the deeper impressions of Garden Gulch, a terrain defined by arid stretches and the quiet endurance of scrub brush. As dusk gathers, the light plays across the dry, golden stalks of the field, turning the entire expanse of Sweetwater into a study of amber and deepening gray, silent save for the low, consistent rush of the creek bed nearby.

Agriculture and the rhythms of the seasons have long directed the pulse of Sweetwater, anchoring a local economy that remains deeply tied to the temperament of the soil. History here is marked by the steady, modest labor of those who worked the land, leaving behind a legacy of resilient homesteads that sit low to the ground, braced against the wind. Residents often look toward the nearby Clearwater River, a protected corridor that offers a more verdant counterpoint to the surrounding plains, providing a vital connection to the wider natural heritage of the region. Life in Sweetwater proceeds with a deliberate pace, unburdened by artifice, where the primary concerns remain the health of the harvest and the slow, seasonal transition of the light across the vast, open plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lapwai State Game Farm (Nature Reserve) — 0.4 mi, 347° N
Clearwater River (Wild & Scenic River) — 5.2 mi, 356° N · 24k acres
Hells Gate State Park (State Park) — 11.3 mi, 259° W
Craig Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.6 mi, 195° S
Nez Perce County Historical Society (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 287° W
Winchester Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 140° SE
Winchester Lake Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 12.1 mi, 140° SE
C. C. Van Arsdol (Monument) — 12.2 mi, 300° NW
Blue Mountains Wildlife Area Complex (State Conservation Area) — 15.6 mi, 240° SW
Clearwater National Forest (National Forest) — 16.5 mi, 056° NE · 1.7M acres
Local Native American and geological information (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 279° W
Grande Ronde River (Lower) (Wild & Scenic River) — 21.9 mi, 204° SW · 11k acres
Troy Mining & Milling Co. (Historic Ruins) — 23.5 mi, 012° N
Village Centre Cinemas at Eastside Marketplace (Cinema) — 25.7 mi, 340° N
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 26.6 mi, 192° S · 662k acres
Nuart Theatre-Christ Church (Theatre) — 26.7 mi, 338° N
Kenworthy Theatre (Theatre) — 26.7 mi, 338° N
Pritchard Art Gallery (Gallery) — 26.7 mi, 338° N
McConnell Mansion Museum (Museum) — 26.7 mi, 339° N
Umatilla National Forest (National Forest) — 27.1 mi, 234° SW · 1.4M acres
The Caring Call (Public Artwork) — 30.2 mi, 325° NW
Paradise Point (Viewpoint) — 31.4 mi, 347° N
Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 36.5 mi, 240° SW · 177k acres
Cooper's Ferry / Nipéhe (Historic Ruins) — 37.4 mi, 149° SE
Hells Canyon Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 38.5 mi, 174° S · 218k acres
Steam Locomotive W.i.&m.ry.co. 1 (Monument) — 38.6 mi, 352° N
Deep Creek Massacre (Monument) — 41.5 mi, 171° S
Codger Pole (Attraction) — 44.3 mi, 322° NW
Pittsburg Rockart Interpertive Site (Attraction) — 53.8 mi, 163° S
McCoy Valley Museum (Museum) — 56.4 mi, 338° N

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