St. Landry Parish, LA Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, shaded from 1 ft on the east side to 130 ft on the north side
Elevation
130 ft 40 m99 ft 30 m83 ft 25 m50 ft 15 m18 ft 5 m1 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
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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

St. Landry Parish averages about 35 ft (11 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1 ft on the east side to 130 ft on the north side.

Average elevation
35 ft 11 m
all land inside the parish
Highest
130 ft 40 m
on the north side
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the east side

St. Landry Parish spans about 129 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.

FigureElevation
Average of all land35 ft11 m
Highest point
Inside the parish, on the north side
130 ft40 m
Lowest point
Inside the parish, on the east side
1 ft0 m

Elevation profile, west to east

42 mi west to east through Opelousas.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, shaded from 1 ft on the east side to 130 ft on the north side
Parish boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Parish in Louisiana, United States
Population
80,869 2024 est.
Land area
923.4 sq mi + 15.7 sq mi water
Density
88 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

  1. Evangeline Parish72 ft
  2. Avoyelles Parish49 ft
  3. St. Landry Parish35 ft
  4. Lafayette Parish29 ft
  5. Pointe Coupee Parish28 ft
  6. Acadia Parish25 ft
  7. St. Martin Parish11 ft

Rankings by average elevation

All 15 towns in St. Landry Parish by typical elevation
  1. Opelousas64 ft
  2. Lawtell59 ft
  3. Washington54 ft
  4. Grand Coteau53 ft
  5. Sunset48 ft
  6. Eunice45 ft
  7. Morrow43 ft
  8. Cankton42 ft
  9. Lebeau36 ft
  10. Palmetto34 ft
  11. Melville29 ft
  12. Port Barre28 ft
  13. Leonville27 ft
  14. Arnaudville26 ft
  15. Krotz Springs23 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.
  • 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, −5 ft at 30.4074° N, 92.0165° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • 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.