Floriston, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,230 ft 2,205 m6,740 ft 2,055 m6,500 ft 1,980 m6,010 ft 1,830 m5,520 ft 1,680 m5,270 ft 1,605 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 CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Floriston sits at about 6,210 ft (1,895 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
6,210 ft 1,895 m
few residents
Lowest
5,270 ft 1,605 m
on the north side
Highest
7,230 ft 2,205 m
at the foot of the Verdi Range
Average
6,190 ft 1,890 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Floriston spans about 1,960 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 6,210 ft1,895 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Verdi Range | 7,230 ft2,205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 5,270 ft1,605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Floriston | 5,420 ft1,650 m |
| Airport (RNO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 4,415 ft1,346 m |
| Average of all land | 6,190 ft1,890 m |
| Nearest peak Verdi Peak, 5.1 mi north of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 8,451 ft2,576 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,210 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.4 °F93.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.8 inHg (80.6 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nevada County, California, United States
- Population
- 80 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3946° N, 120.0213° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Truckee River → Pyramid Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Reno/Tahoe International (RNO) 4,415 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96111
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cedar Flat6,530 ft
- Incline Village, NV6,480 ft
- Crystal Bay, NV6,390 ft
- Carnelian Bay6,330 ft
- Tahoe Vista6,290 ft
- Kings Beach6,290 ft
- Floriston6,210 ft
- Truckee5,950 ft
- Verdi5,170 ft
- Verdi, NV4,900 ft
- Mogul, NV4,760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California32nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Nevada County2nd highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Rose10,760 ft
- Mount Pluto8,610 ft
- Verdi Peak8,451 ft
- Peavine Mountain8,269 ft
- Sardine Peak8,110 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,270 ft at 39.3982° N, 120.0218° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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.
- Floriston is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.