Rapides Parish, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 95 m250 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m140 ft 40 m65 ft 20 m29 ft 9 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Parish area
- Fades everything outside the official parish boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rapides Parish averages about 120 ft (40 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 29 ft on the northeast side to 320 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
120 ft 40 m
all land inside the parish
Highest
320 ft 95 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
29 ft 9 m
on the northeast side
Rapides Parish spans about 291 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 | 120 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside the parish, on the northwest side | 320 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside the parish, on the northeast side | 29 ft9 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
45 mi west to east through Alexandria.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Parish in Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 125,899 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,324.1 sq mi + 37.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 95 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring parishes sharing a border, by average
- Vernon Parish250 ft
- Natchitoches Parish170 ft
- Grant Parish140 ft
- LaSalle Parish130 ft
- Rapides Parish120 ft
- Allen Parish78 ft
- Evangeline Parish72 ft
- Avoyelles Parish49 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Parishes in Louisiana21st highest of 63
- Counties in the United States2,890th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dough Hills250 ft
- McNutt Hill190 ft
All 12 towns in Rapides Parish by typical elevation
- Forest Hill160 ft
- Ball160 ft
- Glenmora140 ft
- McNary130 ft
- Pineville120 ft
- Woodworth97 ft
- Boyce87 ft
- Alexandria78 ft
- Lecompte70 ft
- Cheneyville65 ft
- Echo61 ft
- Deville57 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.