Claremont is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Sumter County, in the U.S. state of

South Carolina South Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia (U.S. state), Georg ...

History

According to tradition, Claremont was so named from the views overlooking the elevated town site.

References

Unincorporated communities in South Carolina Unincorporated communities in Sumter County, South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-geo-stub