Dry Valley, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,310 ft 1,620 m5,250 ft 1,600 m5,230 ft 1,595 m5,170 ft 1,575 m5,120 ft 1,560 m5,090 ft 1,550 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dry Valley sits at about 5,190 ft (1,580 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
5,190 ft 1,580 m
few residents
Lowest
5,090 ft 1,550 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,310 ft 1,620 m
at the foot of the Pioche Hills
Average
5,190 ft 1,580 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dry Valley spans about 220 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 | 5,190 ft1,580 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Pioche Hills | 5,310 ft1,620 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 5,090 ft1,550 m |
| Average of all land | 5,190 ft1,580 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the middle of Dry Valley.
Altitude Effects
What 5,190 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.4 °F94.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.7 inHg (83.7 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% 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
- 49 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8985° N, 114.2962° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Meadow Valley Wash → Virgin River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 89043
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Wilson6,580 ft
- Pioche5,900 ft
- Ursine5,590 ft
- Modena, UT5,470 ft
- Enterprise, UT5,340 ft
- Dry Valley5,190 ft
- Beryl Junction, UT5,180 ft
- Panaca4,770 ft
- Bennett Springs4,710 ft
- Beaverdam4,600 ft
- Caliente4,410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada44th highest of 138
- Towns in Lincoln County4th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Highland Peak9,380 ft
- Roe Peak8,930 ft
- Parsnip Peak8,921 ft
- Elly Mountain7,483 ft
- Chief Mountain7,476 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).
- 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.
- Dry Valley 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.