Darlington County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

460 ft 140 m350 ft 110 m300 ft 90 m200 ft 60 m98 ft 30 m47 ft 14 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Darlington County averages about 170 ft (55 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 47 ft on the east side to 460 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation

170 ft 55 m

all land inside the county

Highest

460 ft 140 m

on the northwest side

Lowest

47 ft 14 m

on the east side

Darlington County spans about 413 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	170 ft55 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	460 ft140 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	47 ft14 m

Elevation profile, west to east

34 mi west to east through Hartsville.

Topographic Map

Location: County in South Carolina, United States
Population: 62,425 2024 est.
Land area: 560.6 sq mi + 5.6 sq mi water
Density: 111 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Chesterfield County320 ft
Kershaw County300 ft
Lee County210 ft
Darlington County170 ft
Marlboro County150 ft
Florence County88 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in South Carolina28th highest of 46
Counties in the United States2,821st highest of 3,151

All 8 towns in Darlington County by typical elevation

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.