Golden Valley, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,860 ft 1,785 m5,640 ft 1,720 m5,530 ft 1,685 m5,310 ft 1,615 m5,090 ft 1,550 m4,980 ft 1,515 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
Golden Valley sits at about 5,140 ft (1,565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,140 ft 1,565 m
most residents: 5,080–5,290 ft
Lowest
4,980 ft 1,515 m
on the northwest side
Highest
5,860 ft 1,785 m
on the northeast side
Average
5,220 ft 1,590 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Golden Valley spans about 880 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 | 5,140 ft1,565 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 5,860 ft1,785 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 4,980 ft1,515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Golden Valley | 5,100 ft1,555 m |
| Airport (RNO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi south of the CDP boundary | 4,415 ft1,346 m |
| Average of all land | 5,220 ft1,590 m |
| Nearest peak Peavine Mountain, 4.8 mi west of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 8,269 ft2,520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,140 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.5 °F94.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.8 inHg (83.9 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 Washoe County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 1,580 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 437 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6155° N, 119.8266° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Reno/tahoe International (RNO) 4,415 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 89506
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Floriston, CA6,210 ft
- Verdi, CA5,170 ft
- Golden Valley5,140 ft
- Cold Springs5,080 ft
- Lemmon Valley4,940 ft
- Verdi4,900 ft
- Mogul4,760 ft
- Sun Valley4,760 ft
- Reno4,570 ft
- Spanish Springs4,530 ft
- Sparks4,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada48th highest of 138
- Towns in Washoe County3rd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peavine Mountain8,269 ft
- Petersen Mountain7,840 ft
- Dogskin Mountain7,350 ft
- Clark Mountain7,202 ft
- Freds Mountain7,193 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).
- 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.
- Golden 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.