Storey County, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,870 ft 2,400 m6,920 ft 2,110 m6,440 ft 1,965 m5,490 ft 1,670 m4,530 ft 1,380 m4,060 ft 1,235 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Storey County averages about 5,610 ft (1,710 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,060 ft on the northeast side to 7,868 ft on Mount Davidson.
Average elevation
5,610 ft 1,710 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,868 ft 2,398 m
on Mount Davidson
Lowest
4,060 ft 1,235 m
on the northeast side
Storey County spans about 3,810 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 | 5,610 ft1,710 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Davidson (NGS survey height) | 7,868 ft2,398 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 4,060 ft1,235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through Virginia City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nevada, United States
- Population
- 4,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 263.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Pyramid Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 67%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 33%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Carson City5,750 ft
- Storey County5,610 ft
- Washoe County5,400 ft
- Lyon County5,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nevada9th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States136th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Davidson7,868 ft
- Ophir Hill7,780 ft
- Mount Bullion7,680 ft
- Orleans Hill7,442 ft
- Clark Mountain7,202 ft
The one town in Storey County
- Virginia City6,170 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; 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; 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.