Folsom, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m100 ft 30 m90 ft 28 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
Folsom sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 140–160 ft
Lowest
90 ft 28 m
on the south side
Highest
170 ft 50 m
on the northwest side
Average
140 ft 45 m
all land inside village limits
Folsom spans about 80 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 170 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 90 ft28 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Folsom | 150 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 829 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 417 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.6302° N, 90.1873° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 70437
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklinton160 ft
- Folsom150 ft
- Rio100 ft
- Independence82 ft
- Sun75 ft
- Tickfaw61 ft
- Natalbany49 ft
- Hammond39 ft
- Abita Springs28 ft
- Covington26 ft
- Madisonville2 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana127th highest of 481
- Towns in St. Tammany Parishhighest of 11
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.