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Chesterfield County, South Carolina

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

 

County Seat: Chesterfield
Year Organized: 1798
Square Miles: 799		 Court House:

200 West Main Street
County Courthouse
Chesterfield, SC 29709-1527
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Chesterfield is named after Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Chesterfield County was named for the English statesman Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773). The county seat is the town of Chesterfield, but the oldest town in the county is Cheraw, which was settled around 1748. The county was formed in 1785, but until 1800 it was part of the larger Cheraws District. Welsh settlers from Pennsylvania and Delaware moved into this region in the mid-eighteenth century, and they were later joined by Scotch-Irish and English. Cheraw was a center for transportation along the Great Pee Dee River, but most of the county is agricultural. General Sherman's troops passed through this area during the Civil War, briefly occupying the towns of Cheraw and Chesterfield. Cheraw State Park, founded in 1934, is the oldest of the state parks. Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was a native of Chesterfield County.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 806 square miles (2,087 kmē), of which, 799 square miles (2,068 kmē) of it is land and 7 square miles (19 kmē) of it (0.89%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Anson County, North Carolina - north
  • Richmond County, North Carolina - northeast
  • Marlboro County, South Carolina - east
  • Darlington County, South Carolina - southeast
  • Kershaw County, South Carolina - southwest
  • Lancaster County, South Carolina - west
  • Union County, North Carolina - northwest
Cities and Towns:
- Cheraw town Incorporated Area
- Chesterfield (County Seat) town Incorporated Area
- Jefferson town Incorporated Area
- McBee town Incorporated Area
- Mount Croghan town Incorporated Area
- Pageland town Incorporated Area
- Patrick town Incorporated Area
- Ruby town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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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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