Elevation of Whitney, Nevada, United States of America

Whitney, Nevada, United States of America is 506 m (1,660 ft) above sea level.

Whitney's height from sea level is 506 metres, or 1,660 feet. GeoNames reads 510 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 592 m.

Ground within 5 km

479 m – 634 m

Mean 530 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 155 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 11

among the towns of Nevada, and 104th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Henderson

8.3 km to the SE, at 581 m, 75 m higher.

Cross-section through Whitney

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Whitney; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 646 m at 13 km west to 570 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 556 m at 13 km north to 1,037 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Whitney, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Whitney

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Henderson	8.3 km	SE	581 m (1,906 ft)	+75 m
Paradise	9.5 km	W	630 m (2,067 ft)	+124 m
Sunrise Manor	13 km	N	558 m (1,831 ft)	+52 m
North Las Vegas	13.3 km	NW	570 m (1,870 ft)	+64 m
Spring Valley	18.4 km	W	725 m (2,379 ft)	+219 m

Peaks and passes near Whitney

Black Mountain, peak at 1,470 m (4,823 ft), 18.4 km to the S — 964 m above the town.
Mount Scorpion, peak at 1,248 m (4,094 ft), 17.7 km to the SE — 742 m above the town.
Black Hill, peak at 1,245 m (4,085 ft), 17.8 km to the SE — 739 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Whitney is

Latitude 36.0966897, longitude -115.0407412. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Whitney's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 510 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.