Town of Elgin, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m370 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m270 ft 80 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
Town of Elgin sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 300–390 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the southeast side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside town limits
Town of Elgin spans about 160 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Town of Elgin | 410 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,657 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,510 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1710° N, 80.7943° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 29045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ridgeway600 ft
- Blythewood460 ft
- Town of Elgin350 ft
- Woodfield280 ft
- Lugoff280 ft
- Dentsville270 ft
- East Camden240 ft
- Forest Acres240 ft
- Arcadia Lakes220 ft
- Camden210 ft
- Boykin160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina224th highest of 475
- Towns in Kershaw County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill470 ft
- Eagles Nest450 ft
- Knight Hill400 ft
- Dunns Mount321 ft
- Jumelle Hill281 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.