Cheraw, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m97 ft 30 m79 ft 24 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cheraw sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 140–170 ft
Lowest
79 ft 24 m
on the north side
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the west side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside town limits
Cheraw spans about 151 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 79 ft24 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cheraw | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (CQW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi west of the town limits | 239 ft73 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 4,946 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.0 sq mi
- Density
- 831 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6977° N, 79.8834° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Cheraw Municipal/Lynch Bellinger Field (CQW) 239 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morven, NC360 ft
- McFarlan, NC290 ft
- Cordova, NC290 ft
- Chesterfield250 ft
- Gibson, NC250 ft
- Patrick210 ft
- Cash210 ft
- Cheraw160 ft
- Bennettsville160 ft
- Wallace150 ft
- Society Hill110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina316th highest of 475
- Towns in Chesterfield Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horseshoe Mountain468 ft
- High Rock340 ft
- Beattie Hill94 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.