Rock Hill, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Rock Hill sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 570–660 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside city limits
Rock Hill spans about 240 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rock Hill | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (UZA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 666 ft203 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in York County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 75,798 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,685 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9249° N, 81.0251° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Rock Hill/York County/Bryant Field (UZA) 666 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 29730 29732 29733
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McConnells660 ft
- Lesslie650 ft
- Baxter Village650 ft
- Newport650 ft
- Riverview630 ft
- Catawba620 ft
- Rock Hill620 ft
- Tega Cay610 ft
- India Hook600 ft
- Fort Mill600 ft
- Van Wyck560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina135th highest of 475
- Towns in York County12th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Nanny Mountain960 ft
- Bulls Hill740 ft
- India Hook Hills720 ft
- Barnett Mountain710 ft
- Long Hill, York County700 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).
- 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, 290 ft at 34.8921° N, 81.0090° 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.
- 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. All public domain.