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Hampton County
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county in South Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Carolina
- Named after
- Wade Hampton III
- Seat
- Hampton
- Largest community
- Hampton
- Total
- 562.71 sq mi (1,457.4 km )
- Land
- 559.98 sq mi (1,450.3 km )
- Water
- 2.73 sq mi (7.1 km ) 0.49%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,174
- Density
- 33.146/sq mi (12.798/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .hamptoncountysc .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Carolina
- Contains
- Estill
- Capital
- Hampton
- Population
- 18561
- Area
- 1457
- Shares border with
- Screven County
- Official website
- www.hamptoncountysc.org
- Image
- Hampton County Courthouse 3.jpg
- Households
- 6893
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- different from
- Hampton
- Commons category
- Hampton County, South Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Hampton County, South Carolina
- water as percent of area
- 0.5
- native label
- Hampton County
- inception
- 1878-00-00
- per capita income
- 19460
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Encyclopedic overview
Hampton County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,561. Its county seat is Hampton. It was named for Confederate Civil War general Wade Hampton, who in the late 1870s, with the ending of Reconstruction, was elected as governor of South Carolina.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hampton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.