Independence, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m96 ft 29 m92 ft 28 m84 ft 26 m76 ft 23 m72 ft 22 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Independence sits at about 82 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
82 ft 25 m
most residents: 78–85 ft
Lowest
72 ft 22 m
on the south side
Highest
100 ft 30 m
on the west side
Average
82 ft 25 m
all land inside town limits
Independence is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 28 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 82 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 72 ft22 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Independence | 87 ft26 m |
| Airport (HDC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi southeast of the town limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 82 ft25 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 1,653 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 682 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.6355° N, 90.5009° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hammond Northshore Regional (HDC) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 70443
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tangipahoa170 ft
- Roseland130 ft
- Amite City110 ft
- Montpelier110 ft
- Independence82 ft
- Tickfaw61 ft
- Natalbany49 ft
- Albany40 ft
- Hammond39 ft
- Ponchatoula23 ft
- Springfield12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana189th highest of 481
- Towns in Tangipahoa Parish5th highest of 9
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.