Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 9793
Land area (2000): 8.774844 sq. miles (22.726740 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.049074 sq. miles (0.127101 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.823918 sq. miles (22.853841 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73870
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.883084 N, 82.333227 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wade Hampton
Housing Units (2000): 2063
Land area (2000): 17193.498043 sq. miles (44530.953609 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2475.739656 sq. miles (6412.136001 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19669.237699 sq. miles (50943.089610 sq. km)
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 62.084927 N, 163.736818 W
Headwords:
Wade Hampton, AK
Wade Hampton Census Area
Wade Hampton Census Area, AK
Wikipedia
Wade Hampton may refer to the following people:
- Wade Hampton I (1752–1835), American soldier in Revolutionary War and War of 1812
- Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), American plantation owner and soldier in War of 1812
- Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), American Civil War soldier and politician; elected Governor and Senator of South Carolina, opponent of Reconstruction
- William Wade Hampton (1854–1928), Florida lawyer commonly known as Wade Hampton
- Wade Hampton Frost (1880-1938), professor of epidemiology
- Wade Randolph Hampton, an American DJ active since the mid-1990s
Wade Hampton may also refer to the following geographical entities, named or formerly named for Wade Hampton III:
- Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, formerly named for Wade Hampton
- Wade Hampton, South Carolina
- Wade Hampton Boulevard
Usage examples of "wade hampton".
General Wade Hampton, who with horse and hound has been the mightiest hunter America has ever seen, informs me that he has killed with his pack some sixteen cougars, during the fifty years he has hunted in South Carolina and Mississippi.
I presume none of them analyzed the nature of his infectious gayety, nor thought of the pathos that lay so close to it, in the fact of his recent slavery, and the distinction of being one of Wade Hampton's niggers, and the melancholy mirth of this light-hearted race's burlesque of itself.
General Wade Hampton tells me that in the course of his fifty years' hunting with horse and hound in Mississippi, he has on several occasions tried his pack of fox-hounds (southern deer-hounds) after a wolf.
General Wade Hampton, who has probably killed more black bears than any other man living in the United States, frequently used the knife, slaying thirty or forty with this weapon.
There was a long and desperate struggle in which neither force could win, young Custer in particular showing uncommon skill and courage for the North, while Wade Hampton performed prodigies for the South.