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Carson City

Carson City occupies a broad high-desert basin in Eagle Valley, set against the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, with the urban floor lying around 4,700 feet (1,430 m) above sea level. The topography is strongly contrasted: the central city spreads across a relatively open, gently sloping valley plain, while steep, dissected mountain terrain rises immediately to the west toward the Sierra crest and Snow Valley Peak, over 9,200 feet (2,800 m), and lower but rugged hills frame the north, east, and southeast around the Virginia Range, Prison Hill, and related ridges. Small canyons and alluvial fans descend from the western mountains into the valley, while the Carson River skirts the southern and eastern lowlands, reinforcing the basin-and-range character of the landscape. Overall, Carson City has a distinctly intermontane physical setting, combining a flat urban valley floor, abrupt mountain fronts, dry foothill slopes, and high-relief alpine margins near Lake Tahoe.

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Name: Carson City topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Carson City, Nevada, United States (39.08480 -120.00608 39.25093 -119.54831)

Average elevation: 6,010 ft

Minimum elevation: 4,301 ft

Maximum elevation: 10,715 ft

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