Natchitoches Parish, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m340 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m200 ft 60 m110 ft 35 m66 ft 20 m
Zoom in for contour lines
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.
- Parish area
- Fades everything outside the official parish boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Natchitoches Parish averages about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 66 ft on the southeast side to 430 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
170 ft 50 m
all land inside the parish
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the west side
Lowest
66 ft 20 m
on the southeast side
Natchitoches Parish spans about 364 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the parish, on the west side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the parish, on the southeast side | 66 ft20 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
54 mi south to north through Natchitoches.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Parish in Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 35,982 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,253.0 sq mi + 46.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring parishes sharing a border, by average
- Sabine Parish270 ft
- Vernon Parish250 ft
- De Soto Parish250 ft
- Bienville Parish240 ft
- Natchitoches Parish170 ft
- Red River Parish160 ft
- Winn Parish160 ft
- Grant Parish140 ft
- Rapides Parish120 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Parishes in Louisiana14th highest of 63
- Counties in the United States2,823rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bedstead Hill400 ft
- Negro Foot Hill390 ft
- Sunk Hill320 ft
- Sang Pour Sang Hill318 ft
- McAlpine Hill210 ft
All 12 towns in Natchitoches Parish by typical elevation
- Marthaville240 ft
- Ashland190 ft
- Goldonna180 ft
- Robeline160 ft
- Provencal150 ft
- Campti150 ft
- Powhatan120 ft
- Clarence120 ft
- Natchitoches120 ft
- Point Place110 ft
- Vienna Bend110 ft
- Natchez100 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census parish boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring parishes and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the parish with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the parish.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.