Richwood, LA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
98 ft 30 m88 ft 27 m84 ft 26 m74 ft 23 m65 ft 20 m60 ft 18 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Richwood sits at about 67 ft (20 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
67 ft 20 m
most residents: 67–69 ft
Lowest
60 ft 18 m
on the northeast side
Highest
98 ft 30 m
on the southwest side
Average
69 ft 21 m
all land inside town limits
Richwood spans about 38 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 | 67 ft20 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 98 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 60 ft18 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richwood | 73 ft22 m |
| Airport (MLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi northeast of the town limits | 79 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 69 ft21 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Population
- 3,809 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,506 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.4488° N, 92.0849° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Bayou Lafourche → Ouachita River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monroe Regional (MLU) 79 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 71202
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calhoun170 ft
- Claiborne130 ft
- Brownsville95 ft
- Swartz93 ft
- Bawcomville84 ft
- West Monroe82 ft
- Sterlington81 ft
- Lakeshore81 ft
- Monroe74 ft
- Start71 ft
- Richwood67 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Louisiana219th highest of 481
- Towns in Ouachita Parishlowest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pargoud Indian Mound84 ft
- Cane Hill76 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.