Silver Peak, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,940 ft 1,505 m4,770 ft 1,455 m4,690 ft 1,430 m4,520 ft 1,380 m4,350 ft 1,325 m4,270 ft 1,300 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Silver Peak sits at about 4,350 ft (1,325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,350 ft 1,325 m
most residents: 4,290–4,540 ft
Lowest
4,270 ft 1,300 m
on the north side
Highest
4,940 ft 1,505 m
at the foot of the Clayton Ridge
Average
4,450 ft 1,355 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Silver Peak spans about 670 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 | 4,350 ft1,325 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Clayton Ridge | 4,940 ft1,505 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 4,270 ft1,300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silver Peak | 4,320 ft1,315 m |
| Average of all land | 4,450 ft1,355 m |
| Nearest peak Silver Peak, 8.0 mi west of the CDP boundary | 9,360 ft2,850 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,350 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.9 °F95.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.5 inHg (86.4 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 121 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 122 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7549° N, 117.6348° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 89047
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tonopah6,080 ft
- Goldfield5,680 ft
- Benton, CA5,630 ft
- Dyer4,880 ft
- Wilkerson, CA4,720 ft
- Mina4,600 ft
- Silver Peak4,350 ft
- West Bishop, CA4,280 ft
- Chalfant, CA4,270 ft
- Dixon Lane-MeadowCreek, CA4,190 ft
- Bishop, CA4,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada93rd highest of 138
- Towns in Esmeralda Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Piper Peak9,451 ft
- Silver Peak9,360 ft
- Harvey Peak9,293 ft
- Rhyolite Ridge8,550 ft
- Montezuma Peak8,380 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,270 ft at 37.7515° N, 117.6329° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Silver Peak 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.