Lemmon Valley, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,040 ft 1,840 m5,760 ft 1,755 m5,620 ft 1,710 m5,340 ft 1,625 m5,060 ft 1,540 m4,920 ft 1,500 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
Lemmon Valley sits at about 4,940 ft (1,505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,940 ft 1,505 m
most residents: 4,930–5,200 ft
Lowest
4,920 ft 1,500 m
on the northeast side
Highest
6,040 ft 1,840 m
on the north side
Average
5,260 ft 1,600 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lemmon Valley spans about 1,120 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 | 4,940 ft1,505 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 6,040 ft1,840 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 4,920 ft1,500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lemmon Valley | 4,950 ft1,510 m |
| Airport (RNO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 4,415 ft1,346 m |
| Average of all land | 5,260 ft1,600 m |
| Nearest peak Freds Mountain, 2.5 mi north of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,193 ft2,192 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,940 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.8 °F94.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.5 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% 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
- 4,987 2020 Census
- Land area
- 16.0 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 311 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6360° N, 119.8432° 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 Nevada53rd highest of 138
- Towns in Washoe County6th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peavine Mountain8,269 ft
- Petersen Mountain7,840 ft
- Dogskin Mountain7,350 ft
- Freds Mountain7,193 ft
- Seven Lakes Mountain6,050 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, 4,920 ft at 39.6493° N, 119.8329° 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.
- Lemmon 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.