Richland County ceded land for the creation of Kershaw County in 1798; circa 1910, both Lexington and Fairfield Counties gave small portions of land to increase the size of Richland County. Its population increased from 3,930 in 1790 to 320,677 in 2000.

Click on the maps below to peruse the known towns and villages that came and went over the past two centuries or so - a few cannot be located since they do not show up on available maps of SC.