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Mount Pleasant topographic map
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Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant occupies a very low, gently undulating Lowcountry setting on the South Carolina Coastal Plain, where the town spreads across interfluves and former island-like uplands between the Cooper River, the Wando River, Charleston Harbor, Shem Creek, tidal creeks, and the Intracoastal Waterway. Its relief is subdued, with most built-up areas lying only a few feet to a few tens of feet above sea level, while the slightly higher inland ridges and neighborhood plateaus rise modestly above surrounding marshes and drainage corridors. The broader Charleston area is described as a drowned coastal-plain landscape with dendritic tidal drainage, this explains Mount Pleasant’s strongly water-shaped terrain, where broad salt marshes, creek valleys, low bluffs, filled or modified waterfronts, and sandy barrier-island margins toward Sullivan’s Island and Isle of Palms define the physical character of the landscape. Overall, the topography is flat to gently rolling, open, estuarine, and flood-prone, with elevation contrasts expressed less as hills than as subtle transitions from marsh and tidal flats to slightly raised coastal terraces and developed uplands.
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Name: Mount Pleasant topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Average elevation: 3 m
Minimum elevation: -4 m
Maximum elevation: 19 m
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