Lawtell, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
81 ft 25 m73 ft 22 m69 ft 21 m61 ft 19 m53 ft 16 m49 ft 15 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lawtell sits at about 59 ft (18 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
59 ft 18 m
most residents: 57–61 ft
Lowest
49 ft 15 m
on the southwest side
Highest
66 ft 20 m
on the east side
Average
58 ft 18 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lawtell is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 17 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 59 ft18 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 66 ft20 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 49 ft15 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lawtell | 59 ft18 m |
| Airport (OPL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 74 ft23 m |
| Average of all land | 58 ft18 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 1,066 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 257 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.5185° N, 92.1848° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Landry Parish (OPL) 74 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 70550 70570
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ville Platte73 ft
- Opelousas64 ft
- Lawtell59 ft
- Chataignier58 ft
- Washington54 ft
- Grand Coteau53 ft
- Sunset48 ft
- Church Point47 ft
- Cankton42 ft
- Branch31 ft
- Leonville27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana233rd highest of 481
- Towns in St. Landry Parish2nd highest of 15
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Lawtell is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.