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Devils Fork State Park is in northwestern South Carolina on the eastern edge of the Sumter National Forest at the edge of 7,500-acre (3,035 ha) Lake Jocassee. It is located three miles (5 km) off SC 11 , the Cherokee Scenic Highway, near the town of Salem, South Carolina .
Devils Fork (conservation area), a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. The Wilderness Society has designated the area as a "Mountain Treasure".
Devil's Fork, Devils Fork and Devil Fork can refer to: The blivet, also known as the Devil's tuning fork, an optical illusion; Devils Fork State Park, a 622-acre (2.52 km 2) park in Northwestern South Carolina; Bidens frondosa, an herb native to North America; The Devils Fork, a tributary of the Little Red River in Arkansas; Devil Fork, Kentucky
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Devils Fork State Park portion of Lake Jocassee. A rare wildflower, the Oconee Bell (Shortia galacifolia), native to only a few counties in the Blue Ridge area, was discovered in the area in 1788 by French botanist André Michaux. The flooding of a large area by Lake Jocassee is said to have caused the destruction of the heart of the species ...
Devils Fork was an unincorporated community located in Wyoming and Raleigh counties, West Virginia, United States. Part of the community was renamed Stephenson . The area's coal mines and a portion of its community [ 2 ] (see Mine Map 322942) resided in the vicinity of Amigo in Raleigh County.
The area was first identified in 1966. [1] It was then designated by Congress in 1975 with the Eastern Wilderness Act. [1] Additional lands were added to Ellicott Rock Wilderness in 1984 [2] [3] with the passing of the North Carolina Wilderness Act [citation needed] and the Georgia Wilderness Act [citation needed], today designated wilderness totals 8,274 acres (33.48 km 2).