South Carolina: Consolidated Chronology of State and County Boundaries

South Carolina Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor; Gordon DenBoer and Kathryn Ford Thorne, Historical Compilers; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director; Emily Kelley, Digital Compiler; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist and Digital Compiler; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant

Copyright The Newberry Library 2009

24 March 1662/1663

King Charles II created Carolina from Virginia colony territory and granted it as a proprietary colony to eight of his suporters (the Lords Proprietors). Limits were: on the north, the north end of Lucke Island and the parallel of 36 degrees north latitude; on the west, the Pacific Ocean; and on the south, the St. Marys River and, from that river westward, the parallel of 31 degrees north latitude. Included all of present Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and Alabama and Mississippi north of 31 degrees north latitude. (N.C. Recs., 1:20-33; Swindler, 7:357-365)

7 Jan 1664/1665

The Carolina Lords Proprietors proposed three counties for their charter claim: Albemarle (in the Albemarle Sound region), Clarendon (for the Cape Fear area), and Craven (for the area south of Cape Romain, in present South Carolina). The boundaries of Clarendon and Craven were not defined, and they never functioned effectively as counties; Albemarle, with broadly defined boundaries, operated only briefly as a county, in present North Carolina. (N.C. Recs., 1:79-93; Swindler, 7:369-374)

30 June 1665

King Charles II granted a new charter to the Carolina Lords Proprietors, expanding their jurisdiction north and south. New boundaries were: on the north, a line from the north end of the Currituck River westward to "Wyonoak" Creek and thence due west along the parallel of 36 degrees, 30 minutes north latitude; on the west, the Pacific Ocean; and on the south, the parallel of 29 degrees north latitude. New southern line would have taken in Spanish settlements in Florida south of St. Marys River The new northern line implicitly redefined the southern limit of Virginia as the parallel of 36 degrees, 30 minutes north latitude; although this definition has not changed, attempts at demarcation have produced an unusually irregular boundary. Included all of present Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. (N.C. Recs., 1:102-114; Swindler, 7:375-382)

10 May 1682

The Carolina Lord Proprietors created three original counties: BERKELEY (original, extinct), COLLETON (original, extinct), and CRAVEN (extinct). (S.C. Records, 1:130-137)

12 March 1684/1685

GRANVILLE (original, extinct) created from unorganized territory; BERKELEY (original, extinct) gained from CRAVEN (extinct) and unorganized territory, exchanged with COLLETON (original, extinct); COLLETON (original, extinct) gained from unorganized territory, exchanged with BERKELEY (original, extinct); CRAVEN (extinct) gained from unorganized territory, lost to BERKELEY (original, extinct). (S.C. Records, 2:11-24)

8 November 1691

CRAVEN (extinct) gained from unorganized territory. (Salley, Commissions, 13)

30 November 1706

Christ Church, St. Andrew, St. James-Goose Creek, St. John-Berkeley, St. Philip, and St. Thomas / St. Dennis Parishes created within BERKELEY County (original, extinct); St. Bartholomew and St. Paul Parishes created within COLLETON County (original, extinct); St. James-Santee Parish created within CRAVEN County (extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 2:283, 328-330)

9 May 1712

The Carolina Lords Proprietors installed a governor for North Carolina, "independent" of the governor of South Carolina, thereby formally setting North Carolina apart from South Carolina (which also included most of present Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). The first official hint of this division came in 1691 when the Proprietors authorized a deputy governor for the northern territory because of its distance from Charleston, the capital. (N.C. Recs., 1:749-750, 841-842; Weir, 68)

7 June 1712

St. Helena Parish created within GRANVILLE County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 2:372)

11 December 1717

St. George-Dorchester Parish created from St. Andrew Parish within BERKELEY County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 3:9-10)

10 Mar 1721/1722

Prince George-Winyaw Parish created in CRAVEN (extinct) and from unorganized territory to cover the coastal area between the Cape Fear and Santee Rivers. Parish had no defined western limit and overlapped North Carolina's Bladen and New Hanover Precincts [created 31 December 1734]. There is no evidence that South Carolina exercised effective control in the Cape Fear region, and Prince George-Winyaw Parish was eliminated from present North Carolina when commissioners from the two colonies established the present state boundary in 1735. (S.C. Statutes, 3:171)

29 May 1721

King George I, responding to the 1719 revolt against the Carolina Lords Proprietors and a request from the dissidents for conversion to a royal province, appointed a temporary governor for South Carolina; the proprietary charter remained in effect. (Weir, 101)

15 September 1721

St. Andrew Parish exchanged with St. George-Dorchester Parish. (S.C. Statutes, 3:134)

25 July 1729

The Carolina Lords Proprietors surrendered their charter to the Crown; North Carolina and South Carolina became royal provinces. (Swindler, 7:395; Van Zandt, 99)

1730

Instructions of King George II to the governors of North and South Carolina included the first definition of a boundary between them south and west of the Cape Fear River, but poor geographic information made the course of the line uncertain. (Paullin, 82, pl. 100a)

9 June 1732

King George II created Georgia from South Carolina and granted it as a proprietary colony in trust for 21 years, with the following boundaries: on the north, the Savannah River to its head; on the south, the Altamaha River; and on the west, the Pacific Ocean. South Carolina retained its charter claims to territory south of the Altamaha River (Paullin, 27, pl. 42; Swindler, 2:437)

22 September 1733

BERKELEY (original, extinct) and CRAVEN (extinct) gained from unorganized territory when boundary separating them was extended inland; the boundaries of St. George-Dorchester, St. James-Goose Creek, St. James-Santee, and St. John-Berkeley Parishes implicitly extended inland along with the BERKELEY / CRAVEN limits. (S.C. Statutes, 3:370)

9 April 1734

Prince Frederick Parish created from Prince George-Winyaw Parish within CRAVEN County (extinct); St. John-Colleton Parish created from St. Paul Parish within COLLETON County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 3:374)

29 March 1735

Boundary between Prince Frederick and Prince George-Winyaw Parishes redefined and extended: Prince Frederick and gained from non-parish area, whereas Prince George-Winyaw was reduced substantially by establishment of the boundary between North and South Carolina in 1735 and officially recognized in the redefined boundaries of the two parishes (S.C. Pub. Laws, no. 613, secs. 15-16/p. 141)

1735

Commissioners from North and South Carolina agreed that the boundary between the two provinces should run northwest from a point on the coast 30 miles west of the Cape Fear River to the parallel of 35 degrees north latitude and thence west to the Pacific Ocean; the Territory South of the River Ohio (later Tennessee) inherited the 35th parallel as its southern boundary after North Carolina ceded its claim to western lands in 1790. (Paullin, 82, pl. 100a; Van Zandt, 97, 100-101)

5 Mar 1736/1737

St. Thomas / St. Dennis Parishes gained from St. John-Berkeley Parish. (S.C. Pub. Laws, no. 654, sec. 3/p. 150)

11 Mar 1737/1738

Boundary between Prince George-Winyaw and St. James-Santee Parishes redefined [no change]. (S.C. Pub. Laws, no. 669, sec. 11/p. 155)

1737

Surveyors finished marking the first part of the 1735 boundary between North and South Carolina, the line northwestward from the coast to the parallel of 35 degrees north latitude, but they mistakenly stopped eleven miles south of the specified line of latitude; this portion of the boundary has remained unchanged, as surveyed. (Paullin, 82, pl. 100a)

25 May 1745

Prince William Parish created from St. Helena Parish within GRANVILLE County (original, extinct); St. Helena Parish gained from non-parish area when its boundaries were extended inland (S.C. Statutes, 3:658)

17 Feb 1746/1747

St. Peter Parish created from St. Helena Parish within GRANVILLE County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 3:668-669)

14 June 1751

St. Michael Parish created from St. Philip Parish within BERKELEY County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 7:79-80)

11 May 1754

St. Stephen Parish created from St. James-Santee Parish within CRAVEN County (extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 4:8)

21 May 1757

St. Mark Parish created from Prince Frederick Parish within CRAVEN County (extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 4:35-36)

10 February 1763

The Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War between Great Britain (the victor) and France and Spain, formally transferred Florida to the British and implicitly set the Mississippi River as the new western limit for the British colonies, including South Carolina, whose charter bounds had technically extended to the Pacific Ocean. (Cappon, Petchenik, and Long, 1)

7 October 1763

The Proclamation of 1763, among its many provisions, confirmed to Georgia the territory south of the Altamaha River and north of Florida, thereby settling a dispute between Georgia and South Carolina and confirming Georgia's claim to all of present Alabama and Mississippi north of 31 degrees north latitude. (Cappon, Petchenik, and Long, 1, 77; Shortt and Doughty, 119-120)

1764

Royal commissioners surveyed the part of the boundary between North and South Carolina westward from the end of the 1737 survey to the Charleston-Salisbury Road near the Catawba Indian lands; no later change. (Paullin, 82, pl. 100a)

9 August 1765

St. Matthew Parish created within BERKELEY County (original, extinct); Non-Parish Area created from territory enclosed by creation of St. Mathew Parish, and unaccounted for by any other parish. (S.C. Statutes, 4:230)

23 May 1767

All Saints Parish created from Prince George-Winyaw Parish within CRAVEN County (extinct); St. Luke Parish created from St. Helena Parish within GRANVILLE County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 4:266)

20 June 1767

St. Matthew Parish's creation disallowed by Crown in London; area reverted to non-parish status. (Correspondence, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 8 Dec. 1994; Edgar, 1:132-133; Knepper, 51)

12 April 1768

St. David Parish created from Prince Frederick and St. Mark Parishes within CRAVEN County (extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 4:300)

St. Matthew Parish re-created within BERKELEY County (original, extinct). (S.C. Statutes, 4:298; S.C. Acts 1797, p. 144)

29 July 1769

Legislature created seven judicial districts: Beaufort, Camden, Charleston, Cheraws, Georgetown, Ninety-Six, and Orangeburg. The judicial districts encompassed all or parts of the 23 existing parishes, and effectively eliminated the existing four counties: BERKELEY (original, extinct), COLLETON (original, extinct) CRAVEN (extinct), and GRANVILLE (original, extinct). (S.C. Pub. Laws, pp. 268-269)

19 December 1770

Creation of All Saints and St. Luke Parishs disallowed by Crown in London; all territory of the two parishes reverted to Prince George-Winyaw Parish and St. Helena Parishes respectively. (Correspondence, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 8 Dec. 1994; Edgar, 1:136, 138; Knepper, 51, 56)

1772

Royal commissioners surveyed the part of the boundary between North and South Carolina from the terminus of the 1764 line around the Catawba Indian lands to Tryon Mountain; it has remained unchanged. (Paullin, 83, pl. 100a)

1 June 1775

Electoral districts established for the first provincial congress and continued in the first state constitution (26 March 1776) established inland limits of Prince William and St. Peter Parishes as the boundary between Beaufort and Orangeburg Districts. (Edgar, 1:150, 153, 164; Swindler, 8:465)

29 June 1776

In its state constitution, Virginia gave up all claims to territory of Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, but asserted its claim to all other American territory within the scope of its 1609 charter, including territory north and west of the Ohio River and the territory around Pittsburgh in present Pennsylvania. (Swindler, 10:55)

4 July 1776

South Carolina became an independent state. (Declaration of Independence)

16 March 1778

All Saints Parish re-created from Prince George-Winyaw Parish. (S.C. Statutes, 4:407-408)

Orange Parish created within Orangeburg District (included part of St. Matthew Parish); St. James-Goose Creek and St. John-Berkeley Parishes gained from St. Matthew Parish and non-parish areas; St. George-Dorchester Parish gained from non-parish area; St. Bartholomew Parish gained from non-parish area when its boundaries were implicitly extended inland to the boundary between Charleston and Orangeburg Districts. (S.C. Statutes, 4:407-408)

12 March 1785

Legislature created 34 counties in the 7 judicial districts (with districts retaining de facto judicial authority). (S.C. Statutes, 4:661-666; S.C. Acts 1797, pp. 144-145)

11 March 1786

WINTON (extinct) gained all of Non-County Area 1. (S.C. Statutes, 7:244)

22 March 1786

GREENVILLE created from Non-County Area 4 attached to LAURENS, and from Non-County Area 3 attached to SPARTANBURG; Non-County Areas 3 and 4 eliminated.. (S.C. Statutes, 7:245)

8 March 1787

South Carolina, believing itself not entirely enclosed on the west by Georgia and North Carolina, formally ceded to the United States its charter claim to all territory north of the source of the Tugaloo River (Georgia's northern limit), south of North Carolina, east of the Mississippi River, and west of the Appalachian watershed; the United States accepted the cession and a deed was transferred 9 August 1787. (Paullin, 83)

28 April 1787

Commissioners from Georgia and South Carolina, meeting at Beaufort, S.C., agreed that their boundary should run up the Savannah and Tugaloo Rivers to either the North Carolina line (parallel of 35 degrees north latitude) or the head of the Tugaloo, whichever was further south. The Tugaloo rises in North Carolina and the intersection of that river and the 35th parallel of north latitude eventually became recognized as the point where Georgia and North Carolina meet to complete South Carolina's western limit. The Beaufort Convention was approved by Congress later in 1787 and by the Georgia and South Carolina legislatures in 1788. (Paullin, 83-84)

29 February 1788

LEXINGTON gained undisputed jurisdiction of 12 March 1785 overlap with NEWBERRY; NEWBERRY eliminated from Orangeburg District. (S.C. Statutes, 7:248)

7 March 1789

PENDLETON (extinct) created from Non-County Area 2 (former Cherokee and Creek lands) attached to ABBEVILLE; Non-County Area 2 eliminated. (S.C. Statutes, 7:252-253)

3 June 1790

St. Luke Parish re-created from St. Helena Parish. (Swindler, 8:476)

19 February 1791

Legislature expanded and reformed the judicial district system: Pinckney District created from Camden and Ninety-Six Districts (encompassing the counties of CHESTER. SPARTANBURG, UNION, and YORK); Washington District created from former Cherokee and Creek lands (encompassing the counties of GREENVILLE and PENDLETON); Camden District gained from Cheraws District; Georgetown District gained from Charleston District. Effectively eliminated as operational administrative units were the counties in Beaufort District (GRANVILLE [second], HILTON, LINCOLN, and SHREWSBURY), Charleston District (BARTHOLOMEW, BERKELEY [second], CHARLESTON, COLLETON [second], MARION [original], and WASHINGTON), Georgetown District (KINGSTON, LIBERTY, WILLIAMSBURG and WINYAW), and Orangeburg District (LEWISBURG, LEXINGTON, ORANGE, and WINTON). (S.C. Acts 1791, Jan. sess., pp. 20-21, 28-29)

KERSHAW created from CLAREMONT (extinct), FAIRFIELD, LANCASTER, and RICHLAND. (S.C. Acts 1791, Jan. sess., p. 45)

LANCASTER gained from YORK. (S.C. Acts 1791, Jan. sess., pp. 21)

Prince Frederick Parish exchanged with Prince George-Winyaw Parish. (S.C. Acts 1791, Jan. sess., p. 45)

21 December 1792

GREENVILLE gained from LAURENS (area gained not transferred to Washington District, remained in Ninety-Six District, extinct). (S.C. Acts 1792, p. 29)

KERSHAW exchanged with CLAREMONT, lost to LANCASTER and RICHLAND. (S.C. Acts 1792, p. 27)

SALEM (extinct) created from CLARENDON and CLAREMONT (extinct). (S.C. Acts 1792, p. 26)

16 December 1797

FAIRFIELD exchanged with RICHLAND. (S.C. Acts 1797, p. 145)

18 December 1799

Richland District created from Camden District, with same boundaries as RICHLAND County. (S.C. Acts 1799, p. 14)

1 January 1800

Legislature created 20 judicial districts and altered the boundaries of Charleston, Georgetown, and Orangeburg Districts; Camden, Cheraws, Ninety-Six, Pinckney, and Washington Districts eliminated; Beaufort District boundaries remained the same. Counties were absorbed into the judicial district system and between 1 January 1800 and 15 April 1868 the judicial districts were the principal subdivisions of the state, with county and parish names surviving mostly as geographical references. In 1868 all existing judicial districts were converted to counties under a new state constitution. (S.C. Acts 1798, pp. 37-44)

19 December 1801

Horry District created from Georgetown District, with same boundaries as the defunct KINGSTON County. (S.C. Acts 1801, p. 84; S.C. Acts 1882, no. 662, secs. 1-2/pp. 945-946)

17 December 1803

As a result of an omnibus act to delineate the boundaries of counties, election districts, and parishes: Orange Parish gained from LEXINGTON (Saxe Gotha election district), non-parish area (remnant of WINTON, extinct), and St. Matthew Parish; LEXINGTON (Saxe Gotha election district) lost to Orange Parish and lost territory in boundary adjustment with St. Matthew Parish. (S.C. Acts 1803, p. 38)

21 December 1804

Lexington District created from Orangeburg District (with altered 1803 LEXINGTON County boundaries). (S.C. Acts 1804, Nov. sess., p. 16)

Williamsburg District created from Georgetown District, with same boundaries as WILLIAMSBURG County in 1785. (S.C. Acts 1804, Nov. sess., p. 30)

19 December 1805

As a result of omnibus act to delineate boundaries of counties, election districts, and parishes: Orange Parish gained from Lexington District; boundary between Orange Parish and St. Matthew Parish confirmed [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1805, p. 94)

19 December 1807

Lexington and Orangeburg Districts gained from Non-District Area; Non-District Area eliminated. (S.C. Acts 1807, p. 56)

1808

Commissioners from North and South Carolina agreed on an extension of the 1772 interstate boundary to the western limit of South Carolina, but because it contained errors in geography, the boundary description could not be implemented. (Paullin, 83, pl. 100a)

18 December 1813

LANCASTER County and Lancaster District both gained small area from North Carolina when North Carolina / South Carolina boundary adjusted [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1939.pt]. (S.C. Acts 1813, Nov. sess., p. 52)

1813

Commissioners from North and South Carolina reached a new agreement on the western end of their boundary, but once again inaccurate geographic knowledge resulted in a definition that was impossible to demarcate. (Paullin, 83)

1815

Commissioners from North and South Carolina demarcated the final segment of the boundary between the two states (Tryon Mountain to Georgia) following the spirit, not the geographically impossible descriptions, of the 1808 and 1813 agreements; the line runs from Tryon Mountain southwestward along the mountain ridge, except for the last 18 miles, where it runs in a straight line to the point at which the parallel of 35 degrees north latitude intersects the Tugaloo River; this line has remained unchanged to the present. (Paullin, 83, pl. 100b)

17 December 1816

St. George-Dorchester Parish gained from St. James-Goose Creek Parish. [also resulting in an implicit gain by Colleton District from Charleston District]. (S.C. Acts 1816, pp. 41-42)

19 December 1816

PENDLETON (extinct), and Pendleton District gained all of Non-County Area 5; territory ceded by the Cherokee on 22 March 1816. (S.C. Acts 1816, pp. 37-39; Swindler, 8:484)

17 December 1817

Boundary between Kershaw and Lancaster Districts confirmed [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1817, Nov. sess., p. 50)

20 December 1826

ANDERSON and PICKENS created from PENDLETON (extinct), as both counties and judicial districts; PENDLETON County and District eliminated. (S.C. Acts 1826, ch. 9, sec. 1/p. 38)

20 December 1832

Lexington District gained from Orangeburg District. (S.C. Acts 1832, Nov. sess., ch. 15, sec. 1/p. 19)

5 January 1857

Clarendon District created from Sumter District, with same boundaries as the original CLARENDON County of 1785. (S.C. Acts 1855, no. 4238, secs. 1, 6/pp. 364-365)

21 December 1857

Clarendon District exchanged with Sumter District. (S.C. Acts 1857, no. 4343, sec. 1/p. 523)

27 September 1865

Under terms of a new state constitution, the judicial districts replaced all but two parishes (the "late" parishes of St. Michael and St. Philip) as election districts, thus signaling the demise of the parishes as functioning governmental units. (Andrews, "Administrative County Government," 16, 20; Swindler, 8:485)

29 January 1868

OCONEE County and District created from PICKENS County and District by ordinance of the state constitutional convention of 1868. (S.C. Acts 1868, spec. sess., pp. 28-29; S.C. Acts 1875, res. no. 26, p. 1015; Swindler, 8:497)

16 April 1868

All judicial districts were converted to counties under a new state constitution; counties assumed all functions of local government from both judicial districts and parishes. (Swindler, 8:497)

10 March 1871

AIKEN created from BARNWELL, EDGEFIELD, LEXINGTON, and ORANGEBURG. (S.C. Acts 1871, no. 420, sec. 1/p. 695)

14 March 1874

AIKEN exchanged with BARNWELL. (S.C. Acts 1874, no. 558, sec. 1/p. 649)

18 February 1878

HAMPTON created from BEAUFORT. (S.C. Acts 1878, no. 353, sec. 1/p. 375)

1 November 1882

BERKELEY created from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1881, no. 527, secs. 1-3, 14/pp. 682-684)

22 December 1888

FLORENCE created from CLARENDON, DARLINGTON, MARION, and WILLIAMSBURG. (S.C. Acts 1888, no. 99, sec. 1/pp. 168-169)

23 December 1889

DARLINGTON gained from FLORENCE. (S.C. Acts 1889, no. 341, sec. 1/pp. 517-518)

24 December 1889

Boundary between DARLINGTON and FLORENCE confirmed [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1889, no. 328, sec. 1/p. 507)

24 December 1892

Boundary between KERSHAW and LANCASTER redefined [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1892, no. 203, sec. 1/p. 296)

20 December 1893

CHARLESTON gained from BERKELEY. (S.C. Acts 1893, no. 388, secs. 2-3, 8/pp. 561-562, 565-566)

25 February 1896

SALUDA created from EDGEFIELD (implemented ordinance of the state constitutional convention, 16 Oct. 1895). (S.C. Acts 1896, no. 118, sec. 1/pp. 248-249; Swindler, 8:524, 540-542)

9 March 1896

Boundaries of BERKELEY, CHARLESTON, and COLLETON redefined [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1896, no. 146, secs. 1-2/pp. 309-310)

25 February 1897

CHEROKEE created from SPARTANBURG, UNION, and YORK. (S.C. Acts 1897, no. 345, sec. 1/pp.588-589)

DORCHESTER created from BERKELEY and COLLETON. (S.C. Acts 1897, no. 346, sec. 1/pp. 595-596)

2 March 1897

GREENWOOD created from ABBEVILLE and EDGEFIELD. (S.C. Acts 1897, no. 347, sec. 1/pp. 604-605)

31 December 1897

BAMBERG created from BARNWELL. (S.C. Acts 1897, no. 344, secs. 1, 18/pp. 580-581, 588)

18 February 1898

GREENWOOD gained from ABBEVILLE and EDGEFIELD. (S.C. Acts 1898, no. 565, secs. 1-2/pp. 896-897)

19 February 1898

LEE created from DARLINGTON, KERSHAW, and SUMTER. (S.C. Acts 1898, no. 575, sec. 1/p. 908)

6 January 1899

Act creating LEE ruled unconstitutional by state supreme court; LEE eliminated. (S.C. Reports, 54:1-79)

1 March 1899

DARLINGTON, KERSHAW, and SUMTER regained areas lost to creation of LEE in 1898, following ruling of state supreme court on 6 January 1899. (S.C. Acts 1899, no. 122, sec. 1/p. 191)

19 February 1901

NEWBERRY gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1901, no. 380, sec. 1/pp. 661-662)

25 February 1902

LEE re-created from DARLINGTON, KERSHAW, and SUMTER. (S.C. Acts 1902, no. 651, sec. 1/pp. 1194-1196)

19 February 1904

FLORENCE gained from WILLIAMSBURG. (S.C. Acts 1904, no. 258, secs. 1-2/pp. 447-448)

14 February 1908

CALHOUN created from LEXINGTON and ORANGEBURG. (S.C. Acts 1908, no. 567, sec. 1/pp. 1279-1281)

5 February 1910

DILLON created from MARION. (S.C. Acts 1910, no. 436, sec. 1/pp. 863-864)

16 February 1911

CHARLESTON gained from COLLETON. (S.C. Acts 1911, no. 171, sec. 1/p. 327; Acts 1953, no. 165, secs. 1, 3/pp. 211-214)

17 February 1911

FLORENCE gained from WILLIAMSBURG. (S.C. Acts 1911, no. 170, sec. 1/pp. 322-323)

30 January 1912

JASPER created from BEAUFORT and HAMPTON. (S.C. Acts 1912, no. 459, sec. 1/pp. 827-829)

9 February 1912

RICHLAND gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1912, no. 457, sec. 1/pp. 821-823)

16 February 1912

FLORENCE gained from WILLIAMSBURG. (S.C. Acts 1912, no. 456, sec. 1/pp. 817-818)

13 February 1913

RICHLAND gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1913, no. 68, sec. 1/pp. 107-108)

19 February 1913

RICHLAND gained from FAIRFIELD. (S.C. Acts 1913, no. 74, sec. 1/pp. 117-118)

14 February 1914

WILLIAMSBURG gained from CLARENDON. (S.C. Acts 1914, Jan. sess., no. 351, sec. 1/pp. 612-614)

19 February 1914

SUMTER gained from LEE. (S.C. Acts 1914, Jan. sess., no. 379, sec. 1/pp. 647-648)

19 February 1916

BEAUFORT gained two small areas from JASPER [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1916.pt]. (S.C. Acts 1916, no. 416, sec. 1/pp. 754-756)

12 April 1916

McCORMICK created from ABBEVILLE, EDGEFIELD, and GREENWOOD. (S.C. Acts 1916, no. 398, secs. 1, 24/pp. 717-718, 730; S.C. Reports, 104:285-311)

27 February 1917

Boundary between OCONEE and PICKENS redefined [no discernible change]. (S.C. Acts 1917, no. 90, sec. 1/pp. 164-165)

6 February 1919

ALLENDALE created from BARNWELL and HAMPTON. (S.C. Acts 1919, no. 6, sec. 1/pp. 5-6)

10 March 1919

BAMBERG gained from COLLETON. (S.C. Acts 1919, no. 75, sec. 1/pp. 95-97)

26 February 1920

BAMBERG gained from COLLETON. (S.C. Acts 1920, no. 399, sec. 1/pp. 773-775)

29 March 1920

NEWBERRY gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1920, no. 547, sec. 1/pp. 976-978)

9 February 1921

EDGEFIELD gained from McCORMICK. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 18, sec. 1/pp. 34-35)

11 February 1921

McCORMICK gained from EDGEFIELD. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 5, sec. 1/pp. 6-8)

CHEROKEE gained from YORK. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 13, sec. 1/pp. 23-24)

28 February 1921

CHARLESTON gained from BERKELEY. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 133, sec. 1/pp. 184-185; Acts 1931, no. 337, sec. 1/pp. 552-554)

4 March 1921

FLORENCE gained from WILLIAMSBURG. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 152, sec. 1/pp. 212-213)

7 March 1921

LEE gained small area from KERSHAW. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 170, sec. 1/pp. 239-240)

20 April 1921

SUMTER gained from CLARENDON. (S.C. Acts 1921, no. 195, secs. 1, 11/pp. 283-285, 288; S.C. Reports, 116:258-262)

11 March 1922

CLARENDON gained from SUMTER. (S.C. Acts 1922, no. 556, sec. 1/pp. 987-988)

RICHLAND gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1922, no. 551, sec. 1/pp. 977-978)

20 March 1923

Boundary between OCONEE and PICKENS redefined [no discernible change]. (S.C. Acts 1923, no. 157, sec. 1/pp. 237-238)

5 March 1925

KERSHAW gained small area from LEE. (S.C. Acts 1925, no. 14, sec. 1/pp. 12-13)

1 July 1939

BEAUFORT gained three small areas from JASPER [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1939.pt] (S.C. Acts 1939, no. 325, sec. 1/pp. 536-538)

4 December 1951

JASPER gained from BEAUFORT. (S.C. Acts 1950, no. 970, secs. 1, 13/pp. 2332-2336; S.C. Reports, 220:469-492)

12 May 1953

NEWBERRY gained from LEXINGTON. (S.C. Acts 1953, no. 323, sec. 1/pp. 416-417)

9 January 1962

ORANGEBURG gained from BERKELEY. (S.C. Code Ann. 1962, vol. 3, title 14, ch. 2, sec. 14, no. 58/pp. 198-199)

20 February 1967

PICKENS gained from OCONEE. (S.C. Acts 1967, no. 45, sec. 1/pp. 46-47)

1 May 1967

DORCHESTER gained small area from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1967, no. 227, sec. 1/pp. 316-317)

20 February 1969

DORCHESTER gained small area from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1969, no. 51, sec. 1/p. 53, and no. 52, sec. 1/p. 54)

14 July 1969

Boundary between LEXINGTON and RICHLAND redefined [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1969, no. 465, secs. 1-3/pp. 819-822)

26 March 1975

COLLETON gained from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1975, no. 81, sec. 1/pp. 88-89)

13 May 1977

DORCHESTER gained from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1977, no. 295, sec. 1/pp. 901-902, no. 296, sec. 1/pp. 902-904, and no. 297, sec. 1/pp. 904-906)

31 December 1977

LANCASTER gained from KERSHAW. (S.C. Acts 1977, no. 348, secs. 1, 5/pp. 982-984)

31 December 1979

KERSHAW gained from LANCASTER. (S.C. Acts 1979, no. 273, secs. 1, 6/pp. 968-970)

8 June 1982

Boundary between CHARLESTON and DORCHESTER redefined [no change]. (S.C. Acts 1982, no. 407, sec. 1/pp. 2438-2440)

28 June 1985

DORCHESTER gained small area from CHARLESTON [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1985.pt]. (S.C. Acts 1985, no. 267, sec. 1/pp. 1880-1882)

17 March 1987

COLLETON gained from CHARLESTON. (S.C. Acts 1987, no. 259, sec. 1/pp. 2324-2327)