Gillisonville, South Carolina

About Gillisonville

Gillisonville is a small unincorporated community in southern South Carolina.

Gillisonville holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 1.18 square miles.

📰 Gillisonville News Today

• Barbara O'Quinn Johnson Obituary Aug 5, 2026 Sauls Funeral Home · Aug 5
• Gillisonville, SC Weather Forecast AccuWeather · Sep 11
• 625 acres of Lowcountry wild land preserved in a $1.7M win-win-win land deal Post and Courier · Sep 29
• Mother Betty Jean Smith Allen Obituary in Fairfax at M.F. Riley's Funeral Home articobits.com · Sep 2
• Wicked SC Lowcountry: In the steps of the mass marauder, General Sherman Bluffton Today · Sep 18

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What Makes Gillisonville Unique

• The only place in America named Gillisonville — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southern South Carolina, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 11 miles.

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