Walker River Reservation, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,130 ft 2,475 m7,070 ft 2,155 m6,540 ft 1,990 m5,480 ft 1,670 m4,420 ft 1,345 m3,890 ft 1,185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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 reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Walker River Reservation averages about 4,580 ft (1,395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,890 ft on the north side to 8,120 ft on Black Mountain.
Average elevation
4,580 ft 1,395 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
8,120 ft 2,475 m
on Black Mountain
Lowest
3,890 ft 1,185 m
on the north side
Walker River Reservation spans about 4,230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,580 ft1,395 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on Black Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 8,120 ft2,475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the north side | 3,890 ft1,185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Schurz.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Nevada, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 814 2020 Census
- Land area
- 528.1 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 58%, Walker Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 42%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Washoe Ranches Trust Land6,340 ft
- Walker River Reservation4,580 ft
- Yerington Colony4,390 ft
- Campbell Ranch4,330 ft
- Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Colony3,970 ft
- Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation3,910 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Nevada18th highest of 27
- Tribal lands in the United States69th highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Black Mountain8,120 ft
- Brown Knob6,089 ft
- Painted Mesa6,046 ft
- White Mountain, Mineral County5,630 ft
- Reservation Hill, Mineral County4,530 ft
The one town in the reservation
- Schurz4,160 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.