Laurel Bay, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
43 ft 13 m32 ft 10 m27 ft 8 m16 ft 5 m5 ft 2 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Laurel Bay sits at about 33 ft (10 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
33 ft 10 m
most residents: 19–39 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the northwest side
Highest
43 ft 13 m
on the northeast side
Average
29 ft 9 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Laurel Bay spans about 43 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.
2% of Laurel Bay's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 1% 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 | 33 ft10 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 43 ft13 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Average of all land | 29 ft9 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.6 mi west to east through the middle of Laurel Bay.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 5,082 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.4606° N, 80.7863° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 29906
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ridgeland44 ft
- Laurel Bay33 ft
- Burton20 ft
- Beaufort17 ft
- Sheldon16 ft
- Shell Point15 ft
- Lobeco14 ft
- Coosawhatchie14 ft
- Port Royal12 ft
- Seabrook11 ft
- Dale9 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina424th highest of 475
- Towns in Beaufort Countyhighest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Honey Hill55 ft
- Partridge Hill36 ft
- Indian Hill, Beaufort County22 ft
- Calabash Knoll20 ft
- Barnwell Hill, Jasper County19 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, −5 ft at 32.4726° N, 80.8126° 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.
- Laurel Bay is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.