McCormick County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m350 ft 105 m240 ft 75 m190 ft 55 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
McCormick County averages about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southeast side to 620 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
420 ft 125 m
all land inside the county
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
McCormick County spans about 430 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through McCormick.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 9,983 2024 est.
- Land area
- 358.9 sq mi + 34.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 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
- Abbeville County570 ft
- Elbert County, GA560 ft
- Greenwood County540 ft
- Edgefield County440 ft
- Lincoln County, GA420 ft
- McCormick County420 ft
- Columbia County, GA370 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina17th highest of 46
- Counties in the United States2,450th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Laurel Hill440 ft
All 7 towns in McCormick County by typical elevation
- McCormick480 ft
- Plum Branch450 ft
- Mount Carmel430 ft
- Willington430 ft
- Modoc370 ft
- Parksville340 ft
- Clarks Hill330 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.