Melville, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
51 ft 15 m42 ft 13 m37 ft 11 m28 ft 9 m20 ft 6 m15 ft 5 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Melville sits at about 29 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
29 ft 9 m
most residents: 27–32 ft
Lowest
15 ft 5 m
on the west side
Highest
50 ft 15 m
on the southeast side
Average
29 ft 9 m
all land inside town limits
Melville spans about 35 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 | 29 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 50 ft15 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 15 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Melville | 29 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 29 ft9 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 740 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 589 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.6930° N, 91.7440° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 71353
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington54 ft
- Lebeau36 ft
- Palmetto34 ft
- Morganza34 ft
- New Roads30 ft
- Melville29 ft
- Port Barre28 ft
- Fordoche27 ft
- Livonia25 ft
- Krotz Springs23 ft
- Maringouin21 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana281st highest of 481
- Towns in St. Landry Parish11th highest of 15
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.