Lyon County, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
10,600 ft 3,230 m8,950 ft 2,730 m8,130 ft 2,480 m6,480 ft 1,975 m4,840 ft 1,475 m4,020 ft 1,225 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
Lyon County averages about 5,230 ft (1,595 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,020 ft on the north side to 10,600 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
5,230 ft 1,595 m
all land inside the county
Highest
10,600 ft 3,230 m
on the south side
Lowest
4,020 ft 1,225 m
on the north side
Lyon County spans about 6,580 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 | 5,230 ft1,595 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 10,600 ft3,230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 4,020 ft1,225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
81 mi south to north through Fernley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 63,718 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,003.1 sq mi + 23.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 99%
- Drains to
- Walker Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 54%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 38%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mono County, CA7,800 ft
- Douglas County6,060 ft
- Mineral County5,910 ft
- Carson City5,750 ft
- Storey County5,610 ft
- Washoe County5,400 ft
- Lyon County5,230 ft
- Churchill County4,740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nevada12th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States158th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bald Mountain9,549 ft
- Desert Creek Peak8,973 ft
- Lyon Peak8,774 ft
- Rawe Peak8,352 ft
- Mount Wilson6,781 ft
All 7 towns in Lyon County by typical elevation
- Silver City5,200 ft
- Smith Valley4,810 ft
- Yerington4,390 ft
- Dayton4,360 ft
- Stagecoach4,330 ft
- Silver Springs4,200 ft
- Fernley4,150 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 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. 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.
- 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.