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Hampton County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,561. [1] Its county seat is Hampton. [2] It was named for Confederate Civil War general Wade Hampton, who in the late 1870s, with the ending of Reconstruction, was elected as governor of South Carolina.
English: This is a locator map showing Hampton County in South Carolina. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Hampton is located in north-central Hampton County at (32.867514, -81.111554 It is bordered to the southeast by the town of Varnville. U.S. Route 278 passes through the center of Hampton as Elm Street; the highway leads northwest 10 miles (16 km) to Fairfax and southeast through Varnville 30 miles (48 km) to Ridgeland.
Varnville is located in north-central Hampton County at (32.852489, -81.079367 It is bordered to the northwest by the town of Hampton. U.S. Route 278 (Carolina Avenue) is the main street through the town, leading northwest into Hampton (where it becomes Elm Street) and south 28 miles (45 km) to Ridgeland.
Hampton County: 049: Hampton: 1878: Beaufort County: Wade Hampton III, lieutenant general and cavalry leader in the Confederate States Army and later governor of South Carolina and U.S. senator 18,122: 563 sq mi (1,458 km 2) Horry County: 051: Conway: 1801: Georgetown County: Peter Horry, Revolutionary War general 397,478: 1,255 sq mi (3,250 km ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Yemassee (/ ˈ j ɛ m ə s iː /) is a small Lowcountry town in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census. [5] Yemassee is near the borders of Colleton and Jasper counties. The town is divided by the county line between Beaufort and Hampton counties, which follows the roadbed ...
The town of Estill is located in the southern half of Hampton County. [5] The town is named for Colonel John Holbrook Estill. Estill was formed in 1900 when the railroad, later Seaboard Air Line Railroad, needed a rail line between Augusta, Georgia and Savannah, Georgia. Upon construction of the rail line, the new town of Estill was ...