Cayce, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 95 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m140 ft 40 m110 ft 35 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cayce sits at about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 60 m
most residents: 140–250 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
300 ft 95 m
on the west side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside city limits
Cayce spans about 190 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 300 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cayce | 240 ft70 m |
| Airport (CAE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 236 ft72 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lexington and Richland counties, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 13,645 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.7 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 816 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9657° N, 81.0740° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Columbia Metro (CAE) 236 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 29033 29170 29172 29201 29209
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak Grove320 ft
- St. Andrews270 ft
- West Columbia270 ft
- Columbia260 ft
- Forest Acres240 ft
- Springdale230 ft
- Pine Ridge220 ft
- South Congaree210 ft
- Cayce190 ft
- Olympia180 ft
- Arthurtown150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina294th highest of 475
- Towns in Lexington Countylowest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain410 ft
- Brice Hill390 ft
- Haigs Hill380 ft
- Quinine Hill350 ft
- Green Hill Mound130 ft
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, −390 ft at 33.9682° N, 81.0479° 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.