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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 State Park: Oconee 622 252 1991 1991 Dreher Island State Park: Newberry 348 141 1970 1970 Edisto Beach State Park: Colleton 1,255 508 1935 1937 Givhans Ferry State Park: Colleton, Dorchester 988 400 1934 1937 Goodale State Park: Kershaw 963 390 1973 1973 H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area: Chesterfield ...
[6] [7] The low elevation of 1550 feet is found at the lower Straight Fork, and the height of about 3490 feet at Cox Place on Little Mountain. [5] While Devil Fork is the main drainage, Clinch Rock Branch of Straight Creek, Roddy Branch of Valley Creek, and Stinking Creek also drain the area and are also tributaries to the Clinch River. [5]
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
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 ...
Part of the community was known as Devils Fork until 1935. [1] The community was named after W. G. Stephenson, a mining official. [ 2 ] Stephenson has a post office , with the ZIP code 25928.
The Andrew Pickens Ranger District is situated in the mountains of northwest South Carolina in Oconee County.Local place names and streams attest the Cherokee Indian heritage of the area, including the Chattooga, Chauga, Cheohee, Tugaloo, Toxaway, Keowee, Oconee, Tamassee, and Jocassee rivers or creeks.