Catawba, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Catawba sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 550–670 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the east side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Catawba spans about 270 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Catawba | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (N52) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi east of the CDP boundary | 602 ft183 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in York County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,301 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 131 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8529° N, 80.9112° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jaars-Townsend (N52) 602 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29704
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lesslie650 ft
- Riverview630 ft
- Catawba620 ft
- Rock Hill620 ft
- Marvin, NC610 ft
- Fort Mill600 ft
- Waxhaw, NC570 ft
- Van Wyck560 ft
- Richburg560 ft
- JAARS, NC540 ft
- Fort Lawn510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina134th highest of 475
- Towns in York County11th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- India Hook Hills720 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 450 ft at 34.8296° N, 80.8979° 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.
- Catawba is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.