Topaz Ranch Estates, NV Elevation & Topographic Map

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
Topaz Ranch Estates sits at about 5,380 ft (1,640 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Topaz Ranch Estates spans about 1,780 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 | 5,380 ft1,640 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Pine Nut Mountains | 6,740 ft2,055 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
| Average of all land | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Siegel, 8.1 mi north of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 9,456 ft2,882 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the middle of Topaz Ranch Estates.
Altitude Effects
What 5,380 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
24.5 inHg (83.1 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Douglas County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 1,630 2020 Census
- Land area
- 14.4 sq mi
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7398° N, 119.5149° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- West Walker River → Walker River → Walker Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 89444
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Double Spring6,060 ft
- Markleeville, CA5,880 ft
- Carter Springs5,480 ft
- Walker, CA5,440 ft
- Topaz Ranch Estates5,380 ft
- Fish Springs5,180 ft
- Coleville, CA5,170 ft
- Topaz Lake5,110 ft
- Topaz, CA5,030 ft
- Ruhenstroth4,970 ft
- Smith Valley4,810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada36th highest of 138
- Towns in Douglas County11th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Siegel9,456 ft
- Mount Como9,019 ft
- Desert Creek Peak8,973 ft
- Artesia6,919 ft
- Mount Wilson6,781 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.
- Topaz Ranch Estates 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.