Scott, LA Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Scott, Louisiana, shaded from 13 ft on the south side to 54 ft on the northwest side
Elevation
54 ft 17 m44 ft 13 m39 ft 12 m28 ft 9 m18 ft 5 m13 ft 4 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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City area
Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Scott sits at about 31 ft (10 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
31 ft 10 m
most residents: 28–36 ft
Lowest
13 ft 4 m
on the south side
Highest
54 ft 17 m
on the northwest side
Average
33 ft 10 m
all land inside city limits

Scott spans about 41 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
31 ft10 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the northwest side
54 ft17 m
Lowest point
Inside city limits, on the south side
13 ft4 m
Town center
USGS map point for Scott
34 ft10 m
Airport (LFT)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi east of the city limits
41 ft12 m
Average of all land33 ft10 m

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Scott, Louisiana, shaded from 13 ft on the south side to 54 ft on the northwest side
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
City in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States
Population
9,468 2024 est.
Land area
11.7 sq mi
Density
807 per sq mi
Coordinates
30.2358° N, 92.0946° W
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Gulf of America
Airport
Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field (LFT) 41 ft
ZIP codes 3
70506 70507 70583
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Carencro47 ft
  2. Cankton42 ft
  3. Ossun41 ft
  4. Scott31 ft
  5. Duson31 ft
  6. Broussard30 ft
  7. Rayne29 ft
  8. Youngsville25 ft
  9. Breaux Bridge23 ft
  10. Milton22 ft
  11. Maurice22 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
  • Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 2 ft at 30.2599° N, 92.0596° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • 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.