Pershing County, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,840 ft 3,000 m8,240 ft 2,515 m7,450 ft 2,270 m5,850 ft 1,785 m4,250 ft 1,295 m3,450 ft 1,055 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
Pershing County averages about 4,880 ft (1,490 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,450 ft on the southeast side to 9,840 ft on Star Peak.
Average elevation
4,880 ft 1,490 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,840 ft 2,999 m
on Star Peak
Lowest
3,450 ft 1,055 m
on the southeast side
Pershing County spans about 6,390 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 | 4,880 ft1,490 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Star Peak (NGS survey height) | 9,840 ft2,999 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,450 ft1,055 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
99 mi west to east through Lovelock.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 6,536 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6,036.6 sq mi + 30.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lander County6,000 ft
- Washoe County5,400 ft
- Humboldt County5,090 ft
- Pershing County4,880 ft
- Churchill County4,740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nevada14th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States185th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Star Peak9,840 ft
- Mount Tobin9,779 ft
- China Mountain8,846 ft
- Cain Mountain8,416 ft
- Granite Peak8,330 ft
All 5 towns in Pershing County by typical elevation
- Unionville5,190 ft
- Grass Valley4,370 ft
- Humboldt River Ranch4,360 ft
- Imlay4,210 ft
- Lovelock3,980 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; 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.