Cankton, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
68 ft 21 m60 ft 18 m56 ft 17 m47 ft 14 m39 ft 12 m35 ft 11 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cankton sits at about 42 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
42 ft 13 m
most residents: 39–46 ft
Lowest
35 ft 11 m
on the southwest side
Highest
48 ft 15 m
on the northwest side
Average
42 ft 13 m
all land inside village limits
Cankton is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 13 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 42 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 48 ft15 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 35 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cankton | 44 ft14 m |
| Airport (LFT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southeast of the village limits | 41 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 42 ft13 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 580 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 284 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.3460° N, 92.1096° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Vermilion River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field (LFT) 41 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 70584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grand Coteau53 ft
- Sunset48 ft
- Church Point47 ft
- Carencro47 ft
- Cankton42 ft
- Ossun41 ft
- Scott31 ft
- Branch31 ft
- Duson31 ft
- Leonville27 ft
- Arnaudville26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana266th highest of 481
- Towns in St. Landry Parish8th highest of 15
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 25 ft at 30.3424° N, 92.1174° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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).
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.