Talk:List of municipalities in South Carolina

Article needs a lead section
I am not sure of what the criteria was in creating the list, but will give the lead section a shot. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 12:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Criteria for this list
In South Carolina, "cities" and "towns" are legally distinct. Many people have been editing towns into this list; there is a separate (and I think complete) list of towns in South Carolina; please make sure your "city" is actually a city before editing it into this list. Also, unincorporated communities do not belong on this list; that is not what this list is for, and since there are a virtually limitless number of unincorporated communities, adding your favorite ones just creates a chaotic list with no particular meaning. RCH (talk) 20:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Four former articles now merged
This page represents the merger of four former articles: List of cities in South Carolina, List of towns in South Carolina, List of census-designated places in South Carolina, and List of Unincorporated Post Office Communities in South Carolina, updated to reflect the 2010 census. I didn't merge them, but many thanks to the person who did. The four articles previously mentioned direct here now, which makes more sense than the way things were before, so we don't need to worry about which article a place name belongs in; we just need to make sure each place stays in the proper section of this list.

The unincorporated communities section of this article is largely based on the old "Unincorporated Post Office Communities" list with a few other additions (mostly obsolete CDPs). I created that older list based on sourcing which communities in South Carolina have, or very recently had, their own post offices but weren't incorporated or census-designated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcharlesholmes (talk • contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

I just removed Holy Islamville from this list. It has its own article, and it does appear to be noteworthy enough to deserve that. However, upon investigation, it is a private religious commune that, so far as I can tell, has never had an official status as an incorporated, census-designated, postal-designated, or even USGS-designated place. Every other unincorporated place on this list possesses or has possessed at least one such official designation, and no other place on this list consists solely of one privately-owned property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcharlesholmes (talk • contribs) 09:13, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

LARGEST city? ...
According to the 2016 estimates provided in their individual articles, Charleston has now surpassed Columbia as the largest city by population, though Columbia continues to be listed as the leader here due to the 2010 census...

Just food for thought :) – Red Sox Fan274  (talk ~contribs)  10:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * The article is a summary of the table, which is based on the 2010 census, so we can't have different data in the lead, and then different numbers in the table. Usually estimates are not used as they are not encyclopedic, however there will be a new census in less than 2 years which will definitively show which city is the largest by population. Mattximus (talk) 12:49, 23 February 2018 (UTC)