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Introduction ...

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

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

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about McCalls Crossroads (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for McCalls Crossroads. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for McCalls Crossroads ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for McCalls Crossroads: McCalls Xrds.
  • While the name of this community is McCalls Crossroads, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So McCalls Crossroads may originally have been McCall's Crossroads.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case McCalls Crossroads might be written as McCall Crossroads.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of McCalls Crossroads is historic, it would have been located within present day Florence County.

To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Florence County: Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Lee, Marion, Marlboro & Williamsburg.

Below are the counties that are near McCalls Crossroads. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to McCalls Crossroads:

  • Florence County     (The home county of McCalls Crossroads)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Quinby
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Mars Bluff
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Mars Bluff is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mars Bluff
    • Jamestown
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jamestown is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
    • Florence
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Siesta Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Siesta Village is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siesta Village
    • Park City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Park City is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park City
    • Tara Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Tara Village is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tara Village
    • Ebenezer
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Ebenezer is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
    • Danwood
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Danwood is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danwood
    • Effingham
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Jones Crossroads
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jones Crossroads is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Crossroads
    • Timmonsville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cusac Crossroads
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cusac Crossroads is located in Florence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusac Crossroads
  • Chesterfield County
    • Patrick
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Darlington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Palmetto
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Palmetto is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
    • Darlington
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Pine Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Pine Village is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Village
    • Mont Clare
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Mont Clare is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mont Clare
    • Alexander Crossroads
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Alexander Crossroads is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander Crossroads
    • Dovesville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Dovesville is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dovesville
    • Syracuse
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Syracuse is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syracuse
    • Philadelphia ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Philadelphia is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia
    • Society Hill
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Greenplains ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Greenplains is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenplains
    • Lamar
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Lamar is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamar
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamar <3>
    • Hartsville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • North Hartsville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • North Hartsville is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hartsville
  • Dillon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Latta
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Floydale
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Dillon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Minturn
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Little Rock
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fork
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Hamer
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Oakland Crossroads
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Oakland Crossroads is located in Dillon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Crossroads
  • Horry County
  • Lee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Lynchburg
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Alcot
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Alcot is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcot
    • Atkins
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Atkins is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkins
    • Elliott
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Sellers
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Laughlin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Laughlin is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laughlin
    • Marion
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Tabernacle
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Tabernacle is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tabernacle
    • Rains
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Mullins
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Centenary
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Gresham
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Marlboro County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Brownsville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Brownsville is located in Marlboro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
    • Drake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Drake is located in Marlboro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drake
    • Blenheim
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Clio
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Clio is located in Marlboro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clio
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 645 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clio <3>
    • Bennettsville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Red Bluff
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Red Bluff is located in Marlboro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
    • Tatum
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • McColl
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Newtonville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Newtonville is located in Marlboro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newtonville
  • Sumter County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Hobbs Crossroads
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Hobbs Crossroads is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs Crossroads
    • Shiloh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Shiloh is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
  • Williamsburg County
    • Moore Crossroads
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Moore Crossroads is located in Williamsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Crossroads
  • Robeson County (NC)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.
    • Rowland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Rowland is located in Robeson County (NC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 985 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rowland <3>
    • Alfordsville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Alfordsville is located in Robeson County (NC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfordsville

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to McCalls Crossroads, see our County-by-County Page for McCalls Crossroads.

Cemeteries Near McCalls Crossroads ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McCalls Crossroads.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for McCalls Crossroads - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for McCalls Crossroads covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.

  • Hinds Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Grimsley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • North Vista Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Moody Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bacote Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Warr Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Palmetto Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Cumberland UMC Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Florence National Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Fraternity Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Pigiott Field Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (338 more) ...

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

While we didn't find McCalls Crossroads in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of McCalls Crossroads.

These communities are listed based on their distance from McCalls Crossroads, with the one closest to McCalls Crossroads listed first.

  • Mars Bluff
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Mars Bluff is located in Florence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mars Bluff
  • Palmetto
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Palmetto is located in Darlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
  • Florence
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Ebenezer
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Ebenezer is located in Florence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
  • Howe
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Howe is located in Florence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
  • Claussen
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Claussen is located in Florence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claussen
  • Brownsville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Brownsville is located in Marlboro County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
  • Mont Clare
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Mont Clare is located in Darlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mont Clare
  • Sellers
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Drake
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Drake is located in Marlboro County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drake
  • Floyd
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Floyd is located in Darlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
  • Effingham
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Laughlin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Laughlin is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laughlin
    • Dovesville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Dovesville is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dovesville
    • Syracuse
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Syracuse is located in Darlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syracuse

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around McCalls Crossroads. See our List of 1890's Communities around McCalls Crossroads.

Newspapers Published in McCalls Crossroads ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around McCalls Crossroads.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McCalls Crossroads, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McCalls Crossroads.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to McCalls Crossroads:

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 McCalls Crossroads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McCalls Crossroads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.