South Carolina Gazetteers

A gazetteer is a list and description of places. It can be used to locate the places where your family lived. Gazetteers describe towns and villages, sizes of population, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. The place names are generally listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary.

Several gazetteers of South Carolina have been published. These include:


 * Palmetto Place Names by the Work Projects Administration in 1941; Family History Collection WorldCat
 * South Carolina Waterways As They Appear in Mill's Atlas by Mariam D. Cropper in 1977; Family History Library book WorldCat - this book is very useful when a waterway is mentioned in deeds or land grants.The original map has been scanned and is available online, see South Carolina Maps.
 * Names in South Carolina  ; Family History Library book WorldCat - a periodical devoted to the study of South Carolina place names

Websites

 * South Carolina HomeTownLocator: Current information regarding towns, cities and other features. Maps are linked.
 * South Carolina Gazetteer &amp; Business Directory, 1890-1891: Abstracted and posted on Colleton County SCGenWeb site.
 * For more online resources for the United States, see US Gazeteers.