THE LEXINGTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Lexington County has 698.5 square miles of land in South Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Lexington County: Sand Hills, Carolina Slate Belt, Southern Outer Piedmont, 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
Lexington County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills61.4%
- Carolina Slate Belt16.4%
- Southern Outer Piedmont10.9%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains10.4%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces0.9%
Piedmont in Lexington 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 Lexington County
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lexington County, including Columbia, Cayce, Lexington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lexington County by land and water
The Census records 58.5 square miles of water within Lexington County, or 7.7% of its total area. That share is close to Lexington County’s 7.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lexington County has 114.2 times the land area of nearby White Knoll CDP (6.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aiken County, Calhoun County, Newberry County, Orangeburg County, Richland County, Saluda County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

