Whitney, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m830 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 205 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Whitney sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 730–820 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Whitney spans about 200 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Whitney | 750 ft230 m |
| Airport (SPA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi south of the CDP boundary | 802 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 4,409 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,445 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9843° N, 81.9265° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Broad River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Spartanburg Downtown Memorial/Simpson Field (SPA) 802 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29303
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southern Shops880 ft
- Saxon840 ft
- Arcadia840 ft
- Hilltop840 ft
- Fairforest840 ft
- Valley Falls820 ft
- Whitney780 ft
- Spartanburg760 ft
- Drayton760 ft
- Arkwright730 ft
- Ben Avon730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina78th highest of 475
- Towns in Spartanburg County22nd highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thicketty Mountain1,258 ft
- Windmill Hill1,173 ft
- Collins Mountain1,150 ft
- Lucas Hill760 ft
- Hayes Hill750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Whitney is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.