Manville, SC

Manville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lee County, South Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 471 residents. The CDP is in central Lee County along U.S. Route 15, 5 miles southwest of Bishopville, the county seat, and 17 miles north of Sumter. South Carolina Highway 441 has its northeastern terminus at US 15 just south of the CDP; Highway 441 leads southwest 19 miles to U.S. Routes 76 and 378 next to Shaw Air Force Base west of Sumter. Manville's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider South Carolina setting. The local scoop is how Manville's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Scape Ore Swamp, a tributary of the Black River, forms the western border of the community.