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Welcome to Long Cane ...

So far, we found very little information about Long Cane. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Long Cane to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Long Cane, please Contact Us.


Long Cane would have been located within present day Abbeville County<2>.


The location of Long Cane has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Long Cane, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1851.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Long Cane is 450 feet [137 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Long Cane was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Long Cane would have been located in the (864) area code.

Communities Also Named Long Cane ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Long Cane - it's located in Georgia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Long Cane.

Communities near Long Cane ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Long Cane.

  • Greenwood
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Abbeville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • McCormick
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Ware Shoals
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Ninety Six
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Calhoun Falls
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Due West
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Hesters Ferry
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hesters Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesters Ferry
    • Hesters Ferry is located in Lincoln County (GA)
    • Estimated population in 2019: 911 people
  • Donalds
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Hodges
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Long Cane. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Long Cane.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Long Cane. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Long Cane.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Long Cane. See our Newspapers Page for Long Cane.

Adding Long Cane to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Long Cane in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Long Cane was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

We also found Long Cane on a map titled Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Long Cane.

The official website for Abbeville County: www.abbevillecountygovernment.org/

The official website for State of South Carolina: https://sc.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Long Cane, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of South Carolina's counties, including Abbeville, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Long Cane - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.









 

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