THE CHEROKEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Cherokee County has 393 square miles of land in South Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cherokee County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Kings Mountain.
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.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cherokee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont61.8%
- Kings Mountain38.2%
Finding your parcel within Cherokee County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cherokee County, including Gaffney, East Gaffney, Blacksburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cherokee County by land and water
The Census records 4.55 square miles of water within Cherokee County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Cherokee County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cherokee County has 130 times the land area of nearby East Gaffney CDP (3.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Spartanburg County, Union County, York County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

