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South Carolina Counties

South Carolina is made up of 46 counties. They range in size from 392 square miles (1,016 square kilometers) in the case of Calhoun County to 1,358 square miles (3,517 square kilometers) in the case of Charleston County. The least populous county is McCormick County, with only 9,958 residents, while the most populous county is Greenville County, with a population of 395,357, despite the state's most populous city, Columbia, being located in Richland County.
 

 

  		 

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Chester County, South Carolina

Chester County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Chester
Year Organized: 1785
Square Miles: 581		 Court House:

1476 J.A. Cochran By-Pass
PO Drawer 580
Chester, SC 29706-0580
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Chester is named after Chester, Pennsylvania.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Chester County and its county seat were named for Chester County, Pennsylvania. The county was formed in 1785 as part of the larger Camden District but was later transferred to Pinckney District (1791-1800); it became a separate district in 1800. Scotch-Irish settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia moved into this upstate region beginning about 1755. During the Revolutionary War, American forces under General Thomas Sumter were defeated here at the battle of Fishing Creek in August 1780; the Americans were victorious at Fishdam Ford in November of the same year. The Landsford Canal was built in 1823 to allow boats and barges to bypass rapids on the Catawba River; this canal is now open as a state park. In later years the availability of hydroelectric power encouraged the establishment of textile mills in the area. Governor, U.S. Senator, and judge Donald S. Russell (1906-1997) lived in Chester as a boy.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 586 square miles (1,518 kmē), of which, 581 square miles (1,504 kmē) of it is land and 6 square miles (15 kmē) of it (0.96%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • York County, South Carolina - north
  • Lancaster County, South Carolina - east
  • Fairfield County, South Carolina - south
  • Union County, South Carolina - west
     
Cities and Towns:
- Chester (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Fort Lawn town Incorporated Area
- Great Falls town Incorporated Area
- Lowrys town Incorporated Area
- Richburg town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

 

 
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