Wells Colony, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,770 ft 1,760 m5,730 ft 1,750 m5,720 ft 1,745 m5,690 ft 1,735 m5,660 ft 1,725 m5,640 ft 1,720 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Wells Colony averages about 5,710 ft (1,740 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,640 ft on the northeast side to 5,770 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
5,710 ft 1,740 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
5,770 ft 1,760 m
on the west side
Lowest
5,640 ft 1,720 m
on the northeast side
Wells Colony spans about 130 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 | 5,710 ft1,740 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the west side | 5,770 ft1,760 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the northeast side | 5,640 ft1,720 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the middle of Wells Colony.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Nevada, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 54 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 426 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Goshute Reservation6,770 ft
- South Fork Reservation5,850 ft
- Duck Valley Reservation5,790 ft
- Wells Colony5,710 ft
- Elko Colony5,250 ft
- Battle Mountain Reservation4,500 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Nevada8th highest of 27
- Tribal lands in the United States33rd highest of 704
The one town in the reservation
- Wells partly5,640 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. 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.