Kershaw County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m300 ft 95 m180 ft 55 m120 ft 35 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kershaw County averages about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 120 ft on the south side to 620 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
300 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the south side
Kershaw County spans about 500 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Lugoff.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 71,698 2024 est.
- Land area
- 726.6 sq mi + 13.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 99 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 56%, Piedmont 44%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lancaster County520 ft
- Fairfield County410 ft
- Chesterfield County320 ft
- Kershaw County300 ft
- Richland County260 ft
- Lee County210 ft
- Darlington County170 ft
- Sumter County160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina22nd highest of 46
- Counties in the United States2,623rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Buck Hill470 ft
- Cantey Hill460 ft
- Eagles Nest450 ft
- Fort Hill430 ft
- Knight Hill400 ft
All 7 towns in Kershaw County by typical elevation
- Abney Crossroads380 ft
- Town of Elgin350 ft
- Lugoff280 ft
- Bethune280 ft
- East Camden240 ft
- Camden210 ft
- Boykin160 ft
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.