THE KERSHAW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Kershaw County has 726.6 square miles of land in South Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Kershaw County: Sand Hills, Southern Outer Piedmont, Carolina Slate Belt, 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
Kershaw County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills61.3%
- Southern Outer Piedmont12.5%
- Carolina Slate Belt11.7%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains7.7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces6.8%
Piedmont in Kershaw 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 Kershaw County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kershaw County, including Columbia, Lugoff, Camden. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kershaw County by land and water
The Census records 13.6 square miles of water within Kershaw County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Kershaw County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kershaw County has 203 times the land area of nearby East Camden CDP (3.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chesterfield County, Darlington County, Fairfield County, Lancaster County, Lee County, Richland County, Sumter County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

