Lexington County ceded land for the creation of Aiken County in 1871; for the creation of Calhoun County in 1908; and it ceded a small portion of its northern lands to Newberry County and Richland County circa 1910.

Its population increased from 6,641 in 1810 to 262,391 in 2010.

Click on the maps below to peruse the known towns and villages that came and went over the past two centuries or so - a few cannot be located since they do not show up on available maps of SC.