Humboldt County, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,730 ft 2,965 m8,280 ft 2,525 m7,550 ft 2,300 m6,090 ft 1,855 m4,630 ft 1,415 m3,910 ft 1,190 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Humboldt County averages about 5,090 ft (1,550 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,910 ft on the southwest side to 9,733 ft on Granite Peak.
Average elevation
5,090 ft 1,550 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,733 ft 2,967 m
on Granite Peak
Lowest
3,910 ft 1,190 m
on the southwest side
Humboldt County spans about 5,820 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 | 5,090 ft1,550 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Granite Peak (NGS survey height) | 9,733 ft2,967 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,910 ft1,190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
79 mi south to north through Winnemucca.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 17,116 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9,640.8 sq mi + 17.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 98%
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Elko County6,150 ft
- Lander County6,000 ft
- Washoe County5,400 ft
- Humboldt County5,090 ft
- Pershing County4,880 ft
- Harney County, OR4,860 ft
- Owyhee County, ID4,800 ft
- Malheur County, OR4,310 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nevada13th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States169th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Granite Peak9,733 ft
- Santa Rosa Peak9,706 ft
- Duffer Peak9,400 ft
- Sonoma Peak9,130 ft
- DeLong Peak9,070 ft
All 8 towns in Humboldt County by typical elevation
- Fort McDermitt4,540 ft
- Paradise Valley4,530 ft
- Valmy4,520 ft
- McDermitt4,440 ft
- Golconda4,410 ft
- Winnemucca4,400 ft
- Orovada4,290 ft
- Denio4,210 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 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.
- 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, 3,740 ft at 41.2574° N, 117.1737° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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.