Pickens, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,130 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pickens sits at about 1,040 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 320 m
most residents: 960–1,100 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside city limits
Pickens spans about 310 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 | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pickens | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Airport (LQK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi south of the city limits | 1,013 ft309 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,188 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,043 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8834° N, 82.7074° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Savannah River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Pickens County (LQK) 1,013 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29671
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dacusville1,050 ft
- Pickens1,040 ft
- Arial1,040 ft
- Six Mile1,010 ft
- Easley1,010 ft
- Liberty980 ft
- Norris920 ft
- Powdersville910 ft
- Cateechee890 ft
- Keowee Key870 ft
- Central850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina7th highest of 475
- Towns in Pickens County2nd highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brasstown Bald4,780 ft
- Tray Mountain4,400 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
- Oakey Mountain3,147 ft
- Cannon Mountain1,300 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.