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Anderson County
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county in South Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Carolina
- Named after
- Robert Anderson
- Seat
- Anderson
- Largest community
- Anderson
- Total
- 755.76 sq mi (1,957.4 km )
- Land
- 713.85 sq mi (1,848.9 km )
- Water
- 41.91 sq mi (108.5 km ) 5.55%
- Estimate 2025
- 219,930
- Density
- 285.38/sq mi (110.19/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- www .andersoncountysc .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Anderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 203,718. Its county seat is Anderson. Named for Revolutionary War leader Robert Anderson, the county is located in northwestern South Carolina, along the state line of Georgia. The county is included in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metropolitan statistical area. Anderson County contains 55,950-acre (22,640 ha) Lake Hartwell, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake with nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of shoreline for residential and recreational use. The area is a growing industrial, commercial, and tourist center. It is the home of Anderson University, a private, selective comprehensive university with about 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anderson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.