Nye County, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,940 ft 3,640 m9,480 ft 2,890 m8,240 ft 2,515 m5,780 ft 1,760 m3,310 ft 1,010 m2,080 ft 635 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
Nye County averages about 5,810 ft (1,770 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,080 ft on the south side to 11,940 ft on South Summit.
Average elevation
5,810 ft 1,770 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,940 ft 3,640 m
on South Summit
Lowest
2,080 ft 635 m
on the south side
Nye County spans about 9,860 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 | 5,810 ft1,770 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on South Summit (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 11,940 ft3,640 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 2,080 ft635 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
214 mi south to north through Pahrump.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 55,990 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18,181.9 sq mi + 16.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- 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
- White Pine County6,830 ft
- Eureka County6,200 ft
- Lander County6,000 ft
- Mineral County5,910 ft
- Nye County5,810 ft
- Esmeralda County5,670 ft
- Lincoln County5,250 ft
- Churchill County4,740 ft
- Inyo County, CA4,160 ft
- Clark County3,360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nevada7th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States123rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- South Summit11,940 ft
- Arc Dome11,781 ft
- Toiyabe Dome11,350 ft
- Troy Peak11,210 ft
- Toiyabe Range Peak10,965 ft
All 5 towns in Nye County by typical elevation
- Tonopah6,080 ft
- Gabbs4,670 ft
- Beatty3,350 ft
- Pahrump2,630 ft
- Amargosa Valley2,330 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 5 arc-second (≈510 ft, 154 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.
- 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.