Goose Creek, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
94 ft 29 m70 ft 21 m58 ft 18 m35 ft 11 m12 ft 4 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Goose Creek sits at about 32 ft (10 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
32 ft 10 m
most residents: 15–46 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southeast side
Highest
94 ft 29 m
on the northwest side
Average
28 ft 8 m
all land inside city limits
Goose Creek spans about 94 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.
7% of Goose Creek's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 5% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 32 ft10 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 94 ft29 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Goose Creek | 31 ft9 m |
| Airport (CHS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi south of the city limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 28 ft8 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 50,352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.9 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,147 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.9810° N, 80.0326° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Charleston Afb/International (CHS) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 29445 29461 29486
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincolnville74 ft
- Sangaree67 ft
- Summerville59 ft
- Moncks Corner47 ft
- Ladson40 ft
- Goose Creek32 ft
- North Charleston24 ft
- Hanahan22 ft
- Pimlico11 ft
- Charleston10 ft
- Mount Pleasant10 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina426th highest of 475
- Towns in Berkeley County10th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rosom Hill50 ft
- Persimmon Hill44 ft
- Windsor Hills30 ft
- Raven Hill20 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 32.9182° N, 79.9571° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.