Virginia City, NV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,630 ft 2,020 m6,390 ft 1,950 m6,280 ft 1,915 m6,040 ft 1,840 m5,810 ft 1,770 m5,690 ft 1,735 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
Virginia City sits at about 6,170 ft (1,880 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,170 ft 1,880 m
most residents: 5,990–6,290 ft
Lowest
5,690 ft 1,735 m
on the east side
Highest
6,630 ft 2,020 m
at the foot of the Virginia Range
Average
6,160 ft 1,875 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Virginia City spans about 940 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 | 6,170 ft1,880 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Virginia Range | 6,630 ft2,020 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 5,690 ft1,735 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Virginia City | 6,200 ft1,890 m |
| Airport (RNO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 4,415 ft1,346 m |
| Average of all land | 6,160 ft1,875 m |
| Nearest peak Ophir Hill, 0.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 7,780 ft2,370 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,170 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.5 °F93.6 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
80% of sea level
23.8 inHg (80.7 kPa): each breath holds 20% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Storey County, Nevada, United States
- Population
- 787 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 908 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3096° N, 119.6496° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Carson River → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Reno/tahoe International (RNO) 4,415 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 89440
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Incline Village6,480 ft
- Virginia City6,170 ft
- Silver City5,200 ft
- Washoe Valley5,110 ft
- Indian Hills4,820 ft
- Johnson Lane4,720 ft
- Carson City4,690 ft
- Reno4,570 ft
- Sparks4,450 ft
- Dayton4,360 ft
- Stagecoach4,330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nevada20th highest of 138
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Rose10,760 ft
- Lyon Peak8,774 ft
- Rawe Peak8,352 ft
- Ophir Hill7,780 ft
- Clark Mountain7,202 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.
- Virginia City 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.