Carson City, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,210 ft 2,810 m8,020 ft 2,445 m7,430 ft 2,265 m6,240 ft 1,900 m5,050 ft 1,540 m4,460 ft 1,360 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carson City sits at about 4,690 ft (1,430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,690 ft 1,430 m
most residents: 4,640–4,770 ft
Lowest
4,460 ft 1,360 m
on the east side
Highest
9,210 ft 2,810 m
on Snow Valley Peak
Average
5,750 ft 1,755 m
all land inside city limits
Carson City spans about 4,750 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 | 4,690 ft1,430 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Snow Valley Peak | 9,210 ft2,810 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 4,460 ft1,360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carson City | 4,680 ft1,425 m |
| Airport (CXP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 4,704 ft1,434 m |
| Average of all land | 5,750 ft1,755 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,690 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.3 °F95.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.2 inHg (85.3 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 58,148 2024 est.
- Land area
- 144.5 sq mi + 12.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 402 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1638° N, 119.7674° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Carson River → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Carson City (CXP) 4,704 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 89701 89703 89705 89706
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Logan Creek7,260 ft
- Incline Village6,480 ft
- Glenbrook6,280 ft
- Virginia City6,170 ft
- Silver City5,200 ft
- Washoe Valley5,110 ft
- Indian Hills4,820 ft
- Johnson Lane4,720 ft
- Genoa4,710 ft
- Carson City4,690 ft
- Dayton4,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada72nd highest of 138
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Snow Valley Peak9,160 ft
- Genoa Peak9,130 ft
- Lyon Peak8,774 ft
- Rawe Peak8,352 ft
- Mineral Peak8,290 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.