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Locations And History Of Place Names

In the Reference Room


  1. Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XXX. 

  2. Palmetto Place Names. 

  3. Towns of South Carolina. 

  4. Mills Atlas Place Name Index.  

  5. Place Name List.

  6. Research Cards for a South Carolina Gazetteer (microfilm).

  7. South Carolina in the 1880s: A Gazetteer compiled and edited by John H. Moore.  

  8. South Carolina Map Collection (card index).

  9. Mills Atlas (1825 district maps).

  10. South Carolina Topographic Maps (index in reference room).

  11. 1883 Agriculture Department Map of South Carolina (shows townships).

  12. South Carolina Highway Map.

  13. South Carolina: A Geography by Charles F. Kovacik and John J. Winberry. 

  14. Guide Maps to the Development of South Carolina Parishes, Districts and Counties (reference desk and on-line).

  15. Union County Historical Foundation Land Grant Maps (index at reference desk).

  16. The Formation of Counties in South Carolina (pamphlet, at reference desk).