Pointe a la Hache, LA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

28 ft 9 m20 ft 6 m16 ft 5 m7 ft 2 m−1 ft 0 m−5 ft −2 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Pointe a la Hache sits at about −1 ft (0 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

−1 ft 0 m

few residents

Lowest

−5 ft −2 m

on the southeast side

Highest

11 ft 3 m

on the north side

Average

0 ft 0 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Pointe a la Hache is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 16 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

78% of Pointe a la Hache's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 14% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

Figure	Elevation
Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	−1 ft0 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	11 ft3 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side	−5 ft−2 m
Town center USGS map point for Pointe a la Hache	1 ft0 m
Average of all land	0 ft0 m

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States
Population: 183 2020 Census
Land area: 1.8 sq mi
Density: 104 per sq mi
Coordinates: 29.5763° N, 89.7917° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 70082

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Poydras5 ft
Jean Lafitte2 ft
Barataria1 ft
Delacroix1 ft
Lafitte1 ft
Pointe a la Hache−1 ft
Belle Chasse−1 ft
Port Sulphur−2 ft
Empire−2 ft
New Orleans Station−2 ft
Buras−4 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Louisiana459th highest of 481
Towns in Plaquemines Parishhighest of 9

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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.
Pointe a la Hache 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); BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.