Nevada Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,150 ft 4,005 m9,980 ft 3,040 m8,390 ft 2,560 m5,230 ft 1,595 m2,060 ft 625 m470 ft 145 m
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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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nevada averages about 5,540 ft (1,690 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 470 ft on the southeast side to 13,147 ft on Boundary Peak.
Average elevation
5,540 ft 1,690 m
all land in Nevada
Highest
13,147 ft 4,007 m
on Boundary Peak
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Nevada spans about 12,680 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 | 5,540 ft1,690 m |
| Highest point In Nevada, on Boundary Peak (NGS survey height) | 13,147 ft4,007 m |
| Lowest point In Nevada, on the southeast side | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
455 mi south to north through Las Vegas.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the Mountain division of the West region, United States
- Population
- 3,267,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 109,860.4 sq mi + 710.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Counties
- 16
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 96%
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 71%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- Utah6,060 ft
- Nevada5,540 ft
- Idaho5,270 ft
- Arizona4,220 ft
- Oregon3,540 ft
- California2,820 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States5th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wheeler Peak13,030 ft
- Mount Moriah12,072 ft
- South Summit11,940 ft
- Charleston Peak11,916 ft
- North Schell Peak11,895 ft
All 16 counties by average elevation
- White Pine County6,830 ft
- Eureka County6,200 ft
- Elko County6,150 ft
- Douglas County6,060 ft
- Lander County6,000 ft
- Mineral County5,910 ft
- Nye County5,810 ft
- Esmeralda County5,670 ft
- Storey County5,610 ft
- Washoe County5,400 ft
- Lincoln County5,250 ft
- Lyon County5,230 ft
- Humboldt County5,090 ft
- Pershing County4,880 ft
- Churchill County4,740 ft
- Clark County3,360 ft
All 27 tribal lands by average elevation
- Goshute Reservation6,770 ft
- Yomba Reservation6,760 ft
- Ely Reservation6,610 ft
- Washoe Ranches Trust Land6,340 ft
- Summit Lake Reservation5,980 ft
- South Fork Reservation5,850 ft
- Duck Valley Reservation5,790 ft
- Wells Colony5,710 ft
- Duckwater Reservation5,490 ft
- Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation5,320 ft
- Elko Colony5,250 ft
- Reno-Sparks Indian Colony5,190 ft
- Carson Colony4,890 ft
- Dresslerville Colony4,880 ft
- Stewart Community4,820 ft
- Timbi-Sha Shoshone Reservation4,650 ft
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation4,580 ft
- Walker River Reservation4,580 ft
- Winnemucca Indian Colony4,570 ft
- Battle Mountain Reservation4,500 ft
- Yerington Colony4,390 ft
- Campbell Ranch4,330 ft
- Lovelock Indian Colony3,980 ft
- Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Colony3,970 ft
- Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation3,910 ft
- Las Vegas Indian Colony2,950 ft
- Moapa River Indian Reservation2,040 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 9 arc-second (≈910 ft, 278 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states 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 state 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.