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York County, South Carolina

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

County Seat: York
Year Organized: 1798
Square Miles: 682
Court House:

P.O. Box 66
County Courthouse
York, SC 29745-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Williamsburg is named for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, son of George II of Great Britain.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

York County and its county seat were named for York County, Pennsylvania. The county was first established in 1785 as part of Camden District. From 1791 to 1800 it was part of Pinckney District, and it became a separate district when Pinckney was dissolved in 1800. Part of the county went to form Cherokee County in 1897. When European settlers arrived, this part of the state was inhabited by the Catawba Indians. The Catawbas signed a treaty with the English in 1763, relinquishing their rights to much of their land. This treaty opened up the area to Scotch-Irish settlers moving down from Pennsylvania and up from the lowcountry. The Catawba Nation is now the only federally-recognized Indian tribe in the state. Two battles were fought in this area during the Revolutionary War, Williamson's Plantation (July 12, 1780) and Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780); the latter battle was a major victory for the Americans. Small-scale cotton farming was prevalent in the county in the nineteenth century, but textile mills became important in the twentieth century, contributing to the growth of the county's largest city, Rock Hill.

Geography

York County is located in north central South Carolina, along the North Carolina border. Its natural boundaries are the Broad River on the west and the Catawba River on the east. All of York County is within the piedmont region. Although heavily wooded in many rural areas and retaining a predominantly rural character in its western half, York County is part of the greater Charlotte metropolitan region and includes Rock Hill, the county’s largest city, as well as the smaller towns of Clover, Fort Mill, Hickory Grove, McConnells, Sharon, Tega Cay, and York and increasing residential development along Lake Wylie.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 696 square miles (1,802 kmē), of which, 682 square miles (1,768 kmē) of it is land and 13 square miles (34 kmē) of it (1.91%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Gaston County, North Carolina - north
  • Mecklenburg County, North Carolina - northeast
  • Lancaster County, South Carolina - east
  • Chester County, South Carolina - south
  • Union County, South Carolina - southwest
  • Cherokee County, South Carolina - west
  • Cleveland County, North Carolina - northwest

Cities and Towns:

- Clover town Incorporated Area
- Fort Mill town Incorporated Area
- Hickory Grove town Incorporated Area
- McConnells town Incorporated Area
- Rock Hill city Incorporated Area
- Sharon town Incorporated Area
- Smyrna town Incorporated Area
- Tega Cay city Incorporated Area
- York (County Seat) city Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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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