THE CHESTERFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Chesterfield County has 799 square miles of land in South Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Chesterfield County: Sand Hills, Carolina Slate Belt, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Chesterfield County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills80%
- Carolina Slate Belt13%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces4.1%
- Triassic Basins2%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains0.8%
Piedmont in Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chesterfield County, including Cheraw, Pageland, Chesterfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chesterfield County by land and water
The Census records 6.67 square miles of water within Chesterfield County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Chesterfield County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chesterfield County has 323.6 times the land area of nearby Ruby town (2.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Darlington County, Kershaw County, Lancaster County, Marlboro County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

