THE AIKEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Aiken County has 1,070.7 square miles of land in South Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Aiken County: Sand Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, among others.
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Aiken County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills91.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces7.1%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains1.3%
- Southern Outer Piedmont0.3%
Piedmont in Aiken County
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Aiken County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Aiken County, including Aiken, North Augusta, Burnettown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Aiken County by land and water
The Census records 9.48 square miles of water within Aiken County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Aiken County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Aiken County has 48.5 times the land area of nearby Aiken city (22.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barnwell County, Edgefield County, Lexington County, Orangeburg County, Saluda County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

