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South Carolina state road 86 cuts through the small town also, connecting with Interstate 85 at Exit 35. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 8.8 square miles (22.7 km 2 ), of which 8.6 square miles (22.3 km 2 ) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km 2 ), or 1.93%, is water. [ 5 ]
South Carolina Highway 85 (SC 85) was a state highway that was established from SC 8/SC 81 near Piedmont to U.S. Route 29 (US 29; now SC 20) in Piedmont. In 1938, it was decommissioned and redesignated as SC 86. Today, only the portion from just west of I-85 to Piedmont is part of SC 86.
The Piedmont & Northern Railway (reporting mark PN) was a heavy electric interurban company operating over two disconnected divisions in North and South Carolina.Tracks spanned 128 miles (206 km) total between the two segments, with the northern division running 24 miles (39 km) from Charlotte, to Gastonia, North Carolina, including a three-mile (5 km) spur to Belmont.
The largest region in the state is the Piedmont (United States). In South Carolina, this region consists mostly of igneous and metamorphic rocks of Paleozoic age. The eastern boundary of the Piedmont is the Fall Line. Several cities are located in the Piedmont, such as Greenville, Spartanburg, Rock Hill, and Greenwood.
Established in 1928 as an original U.S. Highway, it was assigned to the entirety of South Carolina Highway 21 (SC 21), which was removed the same year. Traveling closely as it does today, it went from North Augusta to Travelers Rest, connecting the cities and towns of Edgefield, Greenwood, Ware Shoals, and Greenville.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated four combined statistical areas, ten metropolitan statistical areas, and six micropolitan statistical areas in South Carolina. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC CSA , comprising the area around Greenville in the state's Upcountry .
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The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, [4] is a region of the U.S. state of South Carolina, comprising the northwesternmost area of the state.Although loosely defined among locals, the general definition includes the 10 counties of the commerce-rich I-85 corridor in the northwest corner of South Carolina.