Hilton Head Island, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
40 ft 12 m29 ft 9 m23 ft 7 m12 ft 4 m1 ft 0 m−5 ft −2 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hilton Head Island sits at about 10 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
10 ft 3 m
most residents: 3–17 ft
Lowest
−5 ft −1 m
on the northeast side
Highest
40 ft 12 m
near the middle
Average
9 ft 3 m
all land inside town limits
Hilton Head Island spans about 45 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.
15% of Hilton Head Island's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 14% 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 | 10 ft3 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 40 ft12 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | −5 ft−1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hilton Head Island | 12 ft4 m |
| Airport (HXD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 19 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 9 ft3 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 38,158 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.8 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 935 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.2163° N, 80.7526° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hilton Head (HXD) 19 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 29926 29928
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laurel Bay33 ft
- Bluffton21 ft
- Burton20 ft
- Beaufort17 ft
- Shell Point15 ft
- Daufuskie Island15 ft
- Talahi Island, GA13 ft
- Port Royal12 ft
- Hilton Head Island10 ft
- Tybee Island, GA8 ft
- Fripp Island2 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina461st highest of 475
- Towns in Beaufort County11th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Striker Hills26 ft
- Indian Hill, Beaufort County22 ft
- Barnwell Hill, Jasper County19 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.