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Calhoun County, South Carolina

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—newspaper titles

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17historic places

—earliest paper

1908formed

14,119pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near St. Matthews, Fort Motte, Cameron.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for South Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Calhoun titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Baker, William, House	Gaston	Building	1978
Banks, Col. J. A., House	St. Matthews	Building	1980
Buyck's Bluff Archeological Site	St. Matthews	Site	1979
Calhoun County Courthouse	St. Matthews	Building	1981
Calhoun County Library	St. Matthews	Building	1975
Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant	St. Matthews	Site	1976
Culclasure-Geiger Farmstead	St. Matthews	District	2023
Dantzler, Col. Olin M., House	St. Matthews	Building	1973
Fort Motte Battle Site	Fort Motte	Site	1972
Haigler House	Cameron	Building	2001
Houser, David, House	St. Matthews	Building	1980
Lang Syne Plantation	St. Matthews	District	2014
Midway Plantation	Fort Motte	Building	1976
Oakland Plantation	Fort Motte	Building	1975
Prehistoric Indian Village	St. Matthews	Site	1974
Puritan Farm	St. Matthews	Building	1974
Ulmer-Summers House	Cameron	Building	1973

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Calhoun was formed in 1908 (1908-02-14) from Lexington, Orangeburg.

CALHOUN created from LEXINGTON and ORANGEBURG.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Calhoun County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
16,634	18,384	16,229	14,753	12,256	12,206	15,185	14,119

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Congaree National Park	Park unit	15.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

5 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Goodin Cemetery	33.75876	-80.67814
Kaigler Cemetery	33.81682	-80.98453
Mount Moriah Cemetery	33.78154	-80.96037
Mount Zion Cemetery	33.78431	-80.93564
West End Cemetery	33.66209	-80.78953

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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