Nichols, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
92 ft 28 m81 ft 25 m75 ft 23 m64 ft 20 m53 ft 16 m47 ft 14 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Nichols sits at about 52 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
52 ft 16 m
most residents: 50–55 ft
Lowest
47 ft 14 m
on the southeast side
Highest
92 ft 28 m
on the northwest side
Average
56 ft 17 m
all land inside town limits
Nichols 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 52 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 92 ft28 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 47 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nichols | 54 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 56 ft17 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Marion County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 221 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.2338° N, 79.1487° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Little Pee Dee River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 29581
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Zion100 ft
- Floydale98 ft
- Mullins96 ft
- Lake View91 ft
- Marietta, NC87 ft
- Finklea84 ft
- Rains82 ft
- Green Sea73 ft
- Fair Bluff, NC67 ft
- Ketchuptown60 ft
- Nichols52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina408th highest of 475
- Towns in Marion County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Sand Hills51 ft
- Half Moon Sand Hills45 ft
- River Hill43 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.