Camden, South Carolina

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Kershaw County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Bethesda Presbyterian ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985
• Camden BattlefieldNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Mulberry Plantation (Chesnut House)National Historic Landmark · listed 1980
• Boykin Mill Complexlisted 1992
• Zachariah Cantey Houselisted 1983
• Cool Springslisted 1989
• Thomas English Houselisted 1993
• Historic Camden Revolutionary War Restorationlisted 1969
• Kendall Mill Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Robert Mills Courthouselisted 1971
• Seaboard Air Line Railway Depotlisted 2000
• Carter Hilllisted 1992

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 19 shown

• Baron Dekalb Monument, North Dekalb & Market Streets, Camdenfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Dekalb & Market Streets, Camdenfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Bishop Davis House, Broad & Walnut Streets, Camdenfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Bloomsbury, 1707 Lyttleton Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Bloomsbury, Outbuilding, 1707 Lyttleton Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Charles John Shannon House, 1502 Broad Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Coolspring, U.S. Routes 521 & 601, Camdenfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Elizabeth G. Alexander House, 612 Laurens Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fanny Price House & Store, Broad & York Streets, Camdenfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• First National Bank of Camden, Broad Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Greenleaf Villa, 1307 Broad Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Holly Hedge, 302 Greene Street, Camdenfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Kershaw County

Camden grew from 7,462 to 7,788 between 1980 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1938 USGS Hagood quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1942 USGS Camden quadrangle1:125000
• 1953 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Camden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 816 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Du Bose Park
• Forest Heights
• Dusty Bend
• East Camden
• Hermitage Mill
• Kirkover Hills

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Camden: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Kershaw County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 101 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 67 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Kershaw County

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,771 issues, 6,600 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 64 issues spread across its run from 1836 to 1891, 82,879 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247113. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.