Smoaks, South Carolina
Smoaks is a town in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 126 at the 2010 census. Geography Smoaks is located in northern Colleton County at . U.S. Route 21 passes through the town, leading north to Orangeburg and south to Yemassee. Walterboro, the Colleton County seat, is to the southeast via US 21 and South Carolina Highway 64. South Carolina Highway 217 crosses US 21 in the center of Smoaks, leading west to Lodge and east to Interstate 95 near Canadys. According to the United States Census Bureau, Smoaks has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 140 people, 59 households, and 41 families residing in the town. The population density was 85.9 people per square mile (33.2/km2). There were 68 housing units at an average density of 41.7 per square mile (16.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 85.71% White, 11.43% African American, and 2.86% from two or more races. There were 59 households, out of ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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