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South Carolina Counties
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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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Marion County, South Carolina
Marion County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Marion
Year Organized: 1800
Square Miles: 489 |
Court House: P.O. Box 183
Marion, SC 29571-0183
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Marion is named for Francis Marion, an American Revolutionary War general known as the "Swamp Fox."
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Marion County and its county seat were named for Revolutionary War general Francis Marion (1732-1795), known as the
"Swamp Fox." In 1785 Liberty County was created as a part of Georgetown District; renamed Marion, it became a separate
district in 1800. Parts of Marion later went to form Florence (1888) and Dillon (1910) counties. English settlers moved
up the Great Pee Dee River into this area in the eighteenth century. During the Revolutionary War General Marion's men
fought several skirmishes with the British here before retreating to their camp at Snows Island. In the twentieth
century Marion County became a major tobacco growing region. Writers Virginia Durant Young (1842-1906) and Gwen Bristow
(1903-1980) were natives of Marion County.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 494 square miles (1,280 kmē), of which, 489
square miles (1,267 kmē) of it is land and 5 square miles (13 kmē) of it (1.02%) is water
Neighboring Counties:
- Dillon County, South Carolina - north
- Horry County, South Carolina - east
- Georgetown County, South Carolina - south
- Williamsburg County, South Carolina - southwest
- Florence County, South Carolina - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Marion
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- Mullins |
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- Sellers |
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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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