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Beaufort ( / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt, different from that of Beaufort, North Carolina [ 6]) is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. [ 7] Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. Beaufort is known as the "Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands".
Beaufort County ( / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 187,117. [ 1] Its county seat is Beaufort and its largest community is Hilton Head Island. [ 2] Beaufort County is part of the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
97001208 [1] Added to NRHP. October 10, 1997. Beaufort National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Beaufort County, in the city of Beaufort, South Carolina. [2] [3] Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 44.1 acres (17.8 ha), and as of 2024, had over 28,725 interments.
The U.S. state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties, the maximum allowable by state law. [ 1][ 2] They range in size from 392 square miles (1,015 square kilometers) in the case of Calhoun County to 1,358 square miles (3,517 square kilometers) in the case of Charleston County. The least populous county is Allendale County, with only 7,369 ...
Scottish immigrants founded the short-lived "Stuart Town" in 1684, [ 1] and the British successfully founded the city of Beaufort in 1711, the second-oldest in South Carolina (behind Charleston ). The city initially grew slowly, subject to numerous attacks from Native Americans before flourishing as a regional center for the Lowcountry ...
The rollback was already factored into this year’s budget, and the millage rate went down from 53.9 for the 2023 budget to 51.7 for the 2024 budget.
The day of her wrongful arrest, Frazier was booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center at 11:39 a.m. and released by 12:51 p.m., 72 minutes later, according to the center’s inmate inquiry ...
The U.S. state of South Carolina first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1917. As of 2023, plates are issued by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. Only rear plates have been required since 1975.