Saluda, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m390 ft 120 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
Saluda sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 140 m
most residents: 420–490 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the east side
Highest
550 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside town limits
Saluda spans about 160 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 | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saluda | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (6J4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi south of the town limits | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Saluda County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,061 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 927 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0015° N, 81.7721° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Saluda River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Saluda County (6J4) 539 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29138
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ward660 ft
- Batesburg-Leesville640 ft
- Monetta630 ft
- Johnston620 ft
- Trenton620 ft
- Ridge Spring610 ft
- Edgefield540 ft
- Prosperity530 ft
- Ninety Six520 ft
- Silverstreet490 ft
- Saluda450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina198th highest of 475
- Towns in Saluda Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boles Mountain647 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.