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The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [Notes 2] [Notes 3] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of Nevada by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
Alvin R. McLane, Silent Cordilleras: The Mountain Ranges of Nevada. (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) , USGS
Köppen climate types of Nevada, using 1991-2020 climate normals. Nevada is the driest state in the United States. [3] It is made up of mostly desert and semi-arid climate regions, and, with the exception of the Las Vegas Valley, the average summer diurnal temperature range approaches 40 °F (22 °C) in much of the state. While winters in ...
This is a list of highest points in the U.S. state of Nevada, in alphabetical order by county. All elevations use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the currently accepted vertical control datum for United States, Canada and Mexico. Elevations are from the National Geodetic Survey when available.
Topo map USGS Verdi Peavine Peak , the highest point on Peavine mountain, is located in Washoe County Nevada , [ 3 ] at the northwest corner of the Truckee Meadows and about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) due east of the California state.
Topo map: USGS Mount Etna: ... Nevada. [1] The highest point in the range is the summit of Bald Mountain at 9,549 ft (2,911 m). References
View of Mummy Mountain from Cathedral Rock trail. Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute [5] or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni [6]) at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), [7] is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States.
While it is the highest point in Nevada, the considerably taller Montgomery Peak (13,441 feet or 4,097 metres) is less than 1 mi (1.6 km) away, across the state line in California. By most definitions Boundary Peak, which has a prominence of only 253 ft (77 m), is considered to be a sub-peak of Montgomery Peak.