“S” is for South Carolina-North Carolina border

“S” is for South Carolina-North Carolina border. In 1735 the two colonies appointed a joint boundary commission that agreed the boundary should begin at a point thirty miles south of the Cape Fear River. Because of surveying errors, South Carolina's northern boundary was eleven miles south of where it should have been. To correct this mistake, the boundary was extended seventeen miles north of the 35th parallel and westward to the crest of the Saluda Mountains. In the 1990s issues arose regarding the state boundary between York County, South Carolina and Gaston County, North Carolina. The South Carolina Geodetic Survey and the North Carolina Geodetic Survey agreed to cooperatively reestablish the South Carolina-North Carolina boundary. In 2013 the effort to technically reestablish 334 mile long South Carolina-North Carolina boundary was completed and approved by the North Carolina-South Carolina joint boundary Commission.