Greenville, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,090 ft 330 m1,030 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m810 ft 245 m760 ft 230 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
Greenville sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 295 m
most residents: 910–1,020 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,198 ft 365 m
on Roper Mountain
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Greenville spans about 440 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 | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Roper Mountain | 1,198 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Greenville | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (GSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi east of the city limits | 964 ft294 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 74,371 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,408 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8526° N, 82.3940° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Reedy River → Saluda River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greenville Spartanburg International (GSP) 964 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 29601 29605 29607 29609 29611 29614 29615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berea1,000 ft
- Sans Souci1,000 ft
- Parker990 ft
- Judson990 ft
- City View980 ft
- Wade Hampton970 ft
- Greenville960 ft
- Welcome950 ft
- Dunean950 ft
- Gantt910 ft
- Conestee840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina23rd highest of 475
- Towns in Greenville County12th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Paris Mountain2,045 ft
- Piney Mountain, Greenville County1,360 ft
- Roper Mountain1,198 ft
- Butler Hill1,190 ft
- Indian Hill, Greenville County810 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).
- 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 NGS survey heights. All public domain.