Chester County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m620 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m450 ft 135 m340 ft 105 m280 ft 85 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
Chester County averages about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 280 ft on the southeast side to 730 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
500 ft 155 m
all land inside the county
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Chester County spans about 450 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
34 mi west to east through Chester.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 32,323 2024 est.
- Land area
- 580.9 sq mi + 5.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 56 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
- York County620 ft
- Lancaster County520 ft
- Chester County500 ft
- Union County500 ft
- Fairfield County410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina12th highest of 46
- Counties in the United States2,318th highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Chester County by typical elevation
- Lowrys680 ft
- Richburg560 ft
- Eureka Mill540 ft
- Chester530 ft
- Fort Lawn510 ft
- Great Falls470 ft
- Gayle Mill470 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. 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.