St. Martin Parish, LA Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shaded from sea level on Tensas Bay to 63 ft on the west side
Elevation
63 ft 19 m47 ft 14 m39 ft 12 m23 ft 7 m8 ft 2 m0 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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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Parish area
Fades everything outside the official parish boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

St. Martin Parish averages about 11 ft (3 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Tensas Bay to 63 ft on the west side.

Average elevation
11 ft 3 m
all land inside the parish
Highest
63 ft 19 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Tensas Bay

St. Martin Parish spans about 63 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.

7% of St. Martin Parish's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 21% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

FigureElevation
Average of all land11 ft3 m
Highest point
Inside the parish, on the west side
63 ft19 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets Tensas Bay
0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, south to north

24 mi south to north through Breaux Bridge.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shaded from sea level on Tensas Bay to 63 ft on the west side
Parish boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Parish in Louisiana, United States
Population
51,218 2024 est.
Land area
737.5 sq mi + 79.2 sq mi water
Density
69 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. St. Landry Parish35 ft
  2. Lafayette Parish29 ft
  3. Pointe Coupee Parish28 ft
  4. St. Martin Parish11 ft
  5. Iberville Parish10 ft
  6. Iberia Parish6 ft
  7. Assumption Parish4 ft
  8. St. Mary Parish3 ft

Rankings by average elevation

All 9 towns in St. Martin Parish by typical elevation
  1. Broussard partly30 ft
  2. Cade27 ft
  3. Arnaudville partly26 ft
  4. Cecilia24 ft
  5. Breaux Bridge23 ft
  6. St. Martinville22 ft
  7. Parks21 ft
  8. Henderson14 ft
  9. Catahoula10 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
  • Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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, −7 ft at 29.7507° N, 91.1718° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.