Carencro, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
67 ft 20 m50 ft 15 m42 ft 13 m26 ft 8 m9 ft 3 m1 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carencro sits at about 47 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
47 ft 14 m
most residents: 42–52 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the northeast side
Highest
67 ft 20 m
on the east side
Average
45 ft 14 m
all land inside city limits
Carencro spans about 66 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 | 47 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 67 ft20 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carencro | 40 ft12 m |
| Airport (LFT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi southeast of the city limits | 41 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 45 ft14 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 12,883 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,640 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.3171° N, 92.0490° 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 2
- 70507 70520
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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
- Duson31 ft
- Leonville27 ft
- Arnaudville26 ft
- Breaux Bridge23 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana257th highest of 481
- Towns in Lafayette Parishhighest of 7
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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).
- 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.