Alamo, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,750 ft 1,145 m3,670 ft 1,115 m3,620 ft 1,105 m3,540 ft 1,080 m3,450 ft 1,050 m3,410 ft 1,040 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Alamo sits at about 3,470 ft (1,055 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,470 ft 1,055 m
most residents: 3,430–3,530 ft
Lowest
3,410 ft 1,040 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,750 ft 1,145 m
at the foot of the East Pahranagat Range
Average
3,510 ft 1,070 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alamo spans about 340 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 3,470 ft1,055 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the East Pahranagat Range | 3,750 ft1,145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alamo | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
| Airport (L92) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi west of the CDP boundary | 3,757 ft1,145 m |
| Average of all land | 3,510 ft1,070 m |
| Nearest peak Badger Mountain, Lincoln County, 8.1 mi west of the CDP boundary | 7,970 ft2,430 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,470 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.6 °F96.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.3 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 785 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi
- Density
- 124 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3650° N, 115.1645° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Pahranagat Wash → Muddy River → Virgin River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Alamo Landing Field (L92) 3,757 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 89001 89017
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pioche5,900 ft
- Dry Valley5,190 ft
- Rachel4,810 ft
- Panaca4,770 ft
- Bennett Springs4,710 ft
- Beaverdam4,600 ft
- Caliente4,410 ft
- Hiko4,340 ft
- Alamo3,470 ft
- Indian Springs3,160 ft
- Moapa Town1,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada113th highest of 138
- Towns in Lincoln Countylowest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Irish8,745 ft
- Chokecherry Mountain8,040 ft
- Badger Mountain, Lincoln County7,970 ft
- Monte Mountain7,950 ft
- Tempiute Mountain7,919 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- 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, 3,410 ft at 37.3357° N, 115.1462° 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.
- Alamo 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.