Pelzer, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 210 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pelzer sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 730–820 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the south side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside town limits
Pelzer spans about 130 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pelzer | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (GYH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northeast of the town limits | 956 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,429 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,398 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6423° N, 82.4560° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Saluda River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Donaldson Field (GYH) 956 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29669
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Powdersville910 ft
- Gantt910 ft
- Mauldin890 ft
- Golden Grove870 ft
- Ware Place870 ft
- Belton850 ft
- West Pelzer850 ft
- Conestee840 ft
- Piedmont830 ft
- Williamston830 ft
- Pelzer790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina74th highest of 475
- Towns in Anderson County10th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Oakey Mountain3,147 ft
- Mauldin Mountain1,310 ft
- Bogg Mountain1,250 ft
- Roper Mountain1,198 ft
- Butler Hill1,190 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.