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Maps of South Carolina
South Carolina Maps tend to be an very helpful element of genealogy and family history research, particularly if you live faraway from where your ancestor was living. Since South Carolina political borders frequently changed, historic maps tend to be crucial in assisting you discover the precise specific location of your ancestor's hometown, just what land they owned, who their neighbors ended up being, and a lot more.
South Carolina Maps typically are likely to be an outstanding source for starting out with your own research, simply because they give considerably important information and facts right away. South Carolina Maps are usually a major source of considerable amounts of details on family history.
The South Caroliniana Library from the University of South Carolina at Columbia contains the finest assortment of early South Carolina maps. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History puts out a pamphlet “The Formation of Counties in South Carolina,” which can be procured online. There is no gazetteer for South Carolina.
South Carolina County Formation Map
South Carolina Antique Maps & Atlases
See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.
These are scanned from the original copies so you can see South Carolina and South Carolina counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some South Carolina maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in South Carolina.
- 1776 Atlas North And South Carolina Map
- 1776 Atlas Map Of South Carolina With Its Indian Frontiers (Southern Section)
- 1804 South Carolina Map
- 1814 Atlas Map of South Carolina
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Atlas Of South Carolina
- 1827 Map of North and South Carolina, and Georgia
- 1836 A Atlas New Map Of South Carolina With Its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes (with) Charleston
- 1845 South Carolina Atlas
- 1856 South Carolina Map. (with) Plan Of Charleston, Vicinity & Harbor
- 1856 The City Of Savannah Georgia (with) The City of Charleston South Carolina Maps
- 1880 North and South Carolina. (with) Plan of Charleston
South Carolina County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps
The South Carolina Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps. In addition to roads and boundaries, these maps include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries.
To View the Map: Just click the Image to view the map online. In order to make the Image size as small as possible they were save on the lowest resolution.
South Carolina Map Description & Links
- South Carolina Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- South Carolina Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
- South Carolina Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Historical Maps of South Carolina (alabamamaps.ua.edu)
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (memory.loc.gov) extensive selection from the Library of Congress Map Collections, focusing on Americana and cartographic treasures.
Further Reading
- Historical atlas of the rice plantations of the ACE River Basin--1860 (1995; Suzanne Cameron Linder).
- Names in South Carolina, 30 vols. (1954–83; reprint, Claude Henry Neuffer, ed.)
- Guide to Presbyterian Ecclesiastical Names and Places in South Carolina, 1685–1985 South Carolina Historical Magazine, 90 (October 1989; Joseph B. Martin III)
- Works Progress Administration, Palmetto Place Names (1945; reprint, Easley, S.C.: Reprint Company, 1975)
- Mills' Atlas: Atlas of the State of South Carolina, 1825 (1825; reprint, 1980; Robert Mills), is fully indexed and mentions many landowners.
- South Carolina Map Books (amazon.com)
