THE MCCORMICK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Slate Belt setting.
McCormick County has 358.9 square miles of land in South Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across McCormick County: Carolina Slate Belt, Southern Outer Piedmont.
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
McCormick County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Slate Belt52.8%
- Southern Outer Piedmont47.2%
Finding your parcel within McCormick County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McCormick County, including Mount Carmel, Willington, McCormick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McCormick County by land and water
The Census records 34.7 square miles of water within McCormick County, or 8.8% of its total area. That share is close to McCormick County’s 8.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McCormick County has 88.6 times the land area of nearby McCormick town (4.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Abbeville County, Edgefield County, Greenwood County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

