York is a city in and county seat of York County, South Carolina, United States. The population was nearly 6,985 at the 2000 census and up to 7,736 at the 2010 census. York is located nearly 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina and 13 miles (21 km) west of Rock Hill, South Carolina.

The first European settlers came to York in the beforehand 1750s, having migrated south from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Of the three major groups settling Pennsylvania, the English came first, then the Germans, and then the Scots. The county names of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire had been brought from England to Pennsylvania, and then on to South Carolina by the upfront settlers.

Prior to this, the first known inhabitants of York County were the Catawba Indians.

The town of York was originally known as Fergus’s Crossroads for a tavern, owned by two brothers, William and John Fergus, that was located at the intersection of the road from Rutherfordton to Camden and the road from Charlottesburg (Charlotte) to Augusta. When the county of York was traditional in 1785 the state play a part required each county to erect a courthouse and public buildings in the most convenient ration of the county, with a tax levied to lid the cost of “building the court houses, prisons, pillories, whipping posts and stocks.” Fergus’s Crossroads was close the geographic center of the newly formed county and was agreed for the site of the further county seat.