THE EDGEFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Slate Belt setting.
Edgefield County has 500.7 square miles of land in South Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Edgefield County: Carolina Slate Belt, Southern Outer Piedmont, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, among others.
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
Edgefield County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Slate Belt38.7%
- Southern Outer Piedmont37%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains17%
- Sand Hills7.3%
Southeastern Plains in Edgefield County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Edgefield County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Edgefield County, including North Augusta, Edgefield, Johnston. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Edgefield County by land and water
The Census records 6.3 square miles of water within Edgefield County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Edgefield County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Edgefield County has 115.6 times the land area of nearby Edgefield town (4.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aiken County, Greenwood County, McCormick County, Saluda County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

