Panaca, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,850 ft 1,480 m4,810 ft 1,465 m4,790 ft 1,460 m4,750 ft 1,450 m4,710 ft 1,435 m4,690 ft 1,430 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Panaca sits at about 4,770 ft (1,455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,770 ft 1,455 m
most residents: 4,740–4,780 ft
Lowest
4,690 ft 1,430 m
on the southwest side
Highest
4,850 ft 1,480 m
on the west side
Average
4,740 ft 1,445 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Panaca spans about 160 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 | 4,770 ft1,455 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 4,850 ft1,480 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 4,690 ft1,430 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Panaca | 4,740 ft1,445 m |
| Airport (1L1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 4,831 ft1,472 m |
| Average of all land | 4,740 ft1,445 m |
| Nearest peak Chief Mountain, 8.4 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 7,476 ft2,279 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,770 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.1 °F95.1 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.1 inHg (85.0 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.6% 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 Lincoln County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 870 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 282 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7905° N, 114.3894° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Meadow Valley Wash → Virgin River → Colorado River → Gulf of California
- Airport
- Lincoln County (1L1) 4,831 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 89042
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Wilson6,580 ft
- Pioche5,900 ft
- Ursine5,590 ft
- Modena, UT5,470 ft
- Enterprise, UT5,340 ft
- Dry Valley5,190 ft
- Beryl Junction, UT5,180 ft
- Panaca4,770 ft
- Bennett Springs4,710 ft
- Beaverdam4,600 ft
- Caliente4,410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada64th highest of 138
- Towns in Lincoln County6th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Highland Peak9,380 ft
- Roe Peak8,930 ft
- Parsnip Peak8,921 ft
- Elly Mountain7,483 ft
- Chief Mountain7,476 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).
- 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.
- Panaca 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.