Abbeville County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

830 ft 255 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m520 ft 155 m390 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Abbeville County averages about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 330 ft on the south side to 831 ft on Parsons Mountain.

Average elevation

570 ft 175 m

all land inside the county

Highest

831 ft 253 m

on Parsons Mountain

Lowest

330 ft 100 m

on the south side

Abbeville County spans about 500 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	570 ft175 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Parsons Mountain (NGS survey height)	831 ft253 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	330 ft100 m

Elevation profile, south to north

27 mi south to north through Abbeville.

Topographic Map

Location: County in South Carolina, United States
Population: 24,607 2024 est.
Land area: 491.2 sq mi + 20.5 sq mi water
Density: 50 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Anderson County760 ft
Laurens County600 ft
Abbeville County570 ft
Elbert County, GA560 ft
Greenwood County540 ft
McCormick County420 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in South Carolina9th highest of 46
Counties in the United States2,250th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Parsons Mountain831 ft

All 8 towns in Abbeville County by typical elevation

Honea Path partly770 ft
Donalds750 ft
Antreville690 ft
Due West680 ft
Lake Secession610 ft
Lowndesville570 ft
Abbeville560 ft
Calhoun Falls540 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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 county.
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.