Founding year: the first Edmund post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Edmund’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Edmund is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
D−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Edmund’s overall grade.
South Carolina towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical South Carolina town has 3.2 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Edmund’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of South Carolina towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to D. The pre-1940 share (±0.9 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Edmund’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Edmund yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Edmund is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 969. The CDP is in central Lexington County, centered on the junction of South Carolina Highways 6 and 302. Highway 6 leads north 9 miles (14 km) to Lexington, the county seat, and southeast 12 miles (19 km) to Swansea, while Highway 302 leads northeast 10 miles (16 km) to West Columbia and southwest 7 miles (11 km) to Pelion. Edmund is bordered to the northwest by the CDPs of White Knoll and Red Bank and to the northeast by the towns of South Congaree and Pine Ridge.
Its first post office opened in 1900.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Edmund’s history
What year was Edmund founded?
The Edmund post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Edmund rank for history?
Edmund is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Edmund?
0.4% of Edmund’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.5% for a South Carolina town; the median home was built in 1994.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
