Bamberg County offices to close for Memorial Day, May 25, 2026

Bamberg County shut its offices for Memorial Day, pausing courthouse and administrative business all day and forcing residents with tax, records or permit errands to wait until the next business day.

The county’s holiday notice listed Monday, May 25, 2026, as a full-day closure and tied it to Bamberg County Council’s FY 2025-2026 holiday schedule. That schedule set courthouse and administrative office closures for New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

For residents trying to handle time-sensitive business, the closure mattered most at the courthouse annex, where Bamberg County centers its tax services. The county’s Tax Assessor’s Office, Auditor’s Office and Delinquent Tax Office all operate through that system, making it the place where property-tax questions, delinquent-tax matters and related paperwork are usually handled. The Tax Assessor’s Office appraises real estate and mobile homes, keeps records of deed-sale transactions, building permits and tax maps, and issues certain permits. The Auditor’s Office assists county, school, municipal, attorney, Department of Social Services, Probate Court and public users with property-tax information.

The courthouse annex is identified as the Isaiah Odom Building at 1234 North Street in Bamberg. Anyone planning an in-person visit for tax work, permit questions or records should have avoided Monday and instead waited until offices reopened, with normal service resuming after the holiday. The county’s Family Court also notes that its public portal is available online, giving residents at least one path to handle some business without going inside the building.

The Memorial Day closure sat within a broader county calendar that grouped government services, tax information, employment links, voter resources and public-information pages in one place. That setup made the holiday notice more than a simple calendar entry: it was a reminder that much of Bamberg County’s day-to-day civic business runs through a small set of offices and a single courthouse annex in the county seat. Bamberg County and its county seat were named for William Seaborn Bamberg and other members of the Bamberg family, and the county was established in 1897 after being part of Barnwell County. With a population of 13,311 in the 2020 census, even a one-day closure can affect a significant number of residents trying to keep county business on schedule.