North Santee, Clarendon County, South Carolina
census-designated place in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States
North Santee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 749.
The CDP is on the southwestern edge of Clarendon County, on the northeast shore of Lake Marion, a reservoir on the Santee River. Interstate 95 crosses Lake Marion at North Santee, with access from Exit 102. U.S. Routes 15 and 301 pass through the CDP as a surface highway, joining I-95 at Exit 102 to cross the lake. Summerton is 7 miles (11 km) to the northeast, and Santee is 5 miles (8 km) to the southwest in Orangeburg County.
Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson is a historic site in the north part of the CDP, near the shore of Lake Marion.
Demographics
North Santee first appeared as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.
2020 census
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category.
“North Santee, Clarendon County, South Carolina” enters the record as census-designated place in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what North, Santee and Clarendon can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108581945. Authority coordinates are 33.530, -80.426. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.
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