Cherokee County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,040 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m720 ft 220 m500 ft 155 m400 ft 120 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cherokee County averages about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 400 ft on the southeast side to 1,258 ft on Thicketty Mountain.
Average elevation
690 ft 210 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,258 ft 383 m
on Thicketty Mountain
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the southeast side
Cherokee County spans about 860 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Thicketty Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,258 ft383 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Gaffney.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 57,770 2024 est.
- Land area
- 393.0 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 147 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
- Rutherford County, NC1,120 ft
- Cleveland County, NC900 ft
- Spartanburg County780 ft
- Cherokee County690 ft
- York County620 ft
- Union County500 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina6th highest of 46
- Counties in the United States2,053rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thicketty Mountain1,258 ft
- Whitaker Mountain1,169 ft
- Browns Mountain1,040 ft
- Draytonville Mountain1,000 ft
- Jefferson Mountain850 ft
All 5 towns in Cherokee County by typical elevation
- Chesnee partly900 ft
- Gaffney760 ft
- Blacksburg750 ft
- East Gaffney720 ft
- Cherokee Falls590 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.