Pahrump, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,050 ft 2,455 m6,640 ft 2,025 m5,940 ft 1,810 m4,520 ft 1,380 m3,110 ft 950 m2,410 ft 735 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Pahrump sits at about 2,630 ft (800 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,630 ft 800 m
most residents: 2,550–2,730 ft
Lowest
2,410 ft 735 m
on the northwest side
Highest
8,050 ft 2,455 m
at the foot of the Last Chance Range
Average
3,060 ft 935 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pahrump spans about 5,640 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 | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Last Chance Range | 8,050 ft2,455 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pahrump | 2,700 ft825 m |
| Airport (74P) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,726 ft831 m |
| Average of all land | 3,060 ft935 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
22 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nye County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 44,738 2020 Census
- Land area
- 328.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 136 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2083° N, 115.9839° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Calvada Meadows (74P) 2,726 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 89048 89060 89061
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Charleston7,470 ft
- Goodsprings3,720 ft
- Blue Diamond3,410 ft
- Indian Springs3,160 ft
- Summerlin South2,920 ft
- Sandy Valley2,650 ft
- Pahrump2,630 ft
- Charleston View, CA2,620 ft
- Amargosa Valley2,330 ft
- Shoshone, CA1,900 ft
- Tecopa, CA1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada120th highest of 138
- Towns in Nye County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Charleston Peak11,916 ft
- Potosi Mountain8,490 ft
- Skull Mountain5,978 ft
- Devil Peak5,884 ft
- Blue Diamond Hill4,950 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).
- 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.
- Pahrump 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.