THE DARLINGTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains setting.
Darlington County has 560.6 square miles of land in South Carolina. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Darlington County: Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Sand Hills.
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
Darlington County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains78%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces11.1%
- Sand Hills10.9%
Finding your parcel within Darlington County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Darlington County, including Florence, Dovesville, Hartsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Darlington County by land and water
The Census records 5.62 square miles of water within Darlington County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Darlington County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Darlington County has 80 times the land area of nearby Dovesville CDP (7.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chesterfield County, Florence County, Kershaw County, Lee County, Marlboro County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

