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Lexington County
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county in South Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Carolina
- Named after
- Battle of Lexington and Concord
- Seat
- Lexington
- Largest community
- Lexington
- Total
- 757.62 sq mi (1,962.2 km )
- Land
- 699.00 sq mi (1,810.4 km )
- Water
- 58.62 sq mi (151.8 km ) 7.74%
- Estimate 2025
- 317,588
- Density
- 420.59/sq mi (162.39/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .lex-co .sc .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lexington County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 293,991. Its county seat and largest community is Lexington. The county was chartered in 1785 and was named in commemoration of Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the Battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War. Lexington County is the sixth-most populous county in South Carolina by population and is part of the Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the Midlands region of South Carolina.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lexington County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.