Georgetown, South Carolina

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Georgetown 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 of 25 shown

• HopseweeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Joseph H. Rainey HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1984
• Annandale Plantationlisted 1973
• Arcadia Plantationlisted 1978
• Battery Whitelisted 1977
• Beneventum Plantation Houselisted 1988
• Black River Plantation Houselisted 1994
• Brookgreen Gardenslisted 1978
• Chicora Wood Plantationlisted 1973
• Friendfield Plantationlisted 1996
• Georgetown Lighthouselisted 1974
• Harold Kaminski Houselisted 1971

Every listing in Georgetown County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 43 shown

• Allston House, 405 Front Street, Georgetownfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Annandale Plantation, Dependency, State Routes 30 & 18 vicinity, Georgetownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Annandale Plantation, House, Annandale Plantation Vicinity, Georgetownfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Arcadia Plantation, U.S. Highway 17 vicinity, Georgetownfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Arundel Plantation, Slave Cabin, Intersection of Routes 701 & 4, Georgetownfederal building survey, 19 photographs
• Beneventum Plantation, Road S-22-431, Georgetownfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Cat Island Plantation, By ferry via Estherville Minim Creek Canal, North Santeefederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Chicora Wood Plantation, Cabin, County Road 52, Georgetownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Chicora Wood Plantation, County Road No. 52 (north side), Georgetownfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Chicora Wood Plantation, Kitchen Building, County Road 52, Georgetownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Chicora Wood Plantation, Laundry Building, County Road 52, Georgetownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Chicora Wood Plantation, Rice Shipping House, County Road 52, Georgetownfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Georgetown County

Georgetown fell from 8,950 to 8,403 between 2000 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.

• 1943 USGS Georgetown North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Georgetown 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 206 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,474 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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:

• Steele Town
• Country Club Estates
• San Miguel De Gualdape (historical)
• Colonial Estates
• Friendfield
• Kensington

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Georgetown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 flash flood, 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 heavy rain, 9 hail. The reports record 1 death and 11 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 Georgetown County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1 issue, 4 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: 1 issue from 1873, 4,695 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 1247888. 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.