Lancaster County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m610 ft 185 m550 ft 165 m420 ft 125 m280 ft 85 m220 ft 65 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
Lancaster County averages about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 220 ft on the southwest side to 740 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the county
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Lancaster County spans about 520 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 220 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through Lancaster.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 111,652 2024 est.
- Land area
- 549.2 sq mi + 6.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 203 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mecklenburg County, NC700 ft
- York County620 ft
- Union County, NC570 ft
- Lancaster County520 ft
- Chester County500 ft
- Fairfield County410 ft
- Chesterfield County320 ft
- Kershaw County300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina11th highest of 46
- Counties in the United States2,296th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Forty Acre Rock620 ft
- Thorn Hill610 ft
All 10 towns in Lancaster County by typical elevation
- Buford670 ft
- Heath Springs660 ft
- Unity610 ft
- Elgin560 ft
- Van Wyck560 ft
- Springdale, Lancaster County520 ft
- Tradesville520 ft
- Kershaw510 ft
- Irwin510 ft
- Lancaster490 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.
- 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, 130 ft at 34.5787° N, 80.5443° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.