Five Forks, South Carolina: Difference between revisions

The Five Forks area is named for a conflux of five roads, which the Greenville edition of ''[[The Post and Courier]]'' identifies as [[South Carolina Highway 146|Woodruff]] (the main east–west artery), Batesville, Scuffletown, [[South Carolina Highway 296|Bennetts Bridge]], and one now called [[South Carolina Highway 296|Five Forks Road]].<ref name=pandc>{{cite news |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/business/a-traffic-choked-greenville-suburb-wants-to-stop-sprawl-but-keep-growing-it-wont-be/article_7a243fea-8042-11eb-b9c5-27060dda350f.html |title=A traffic-choked Greenville suburb wants to stop sprawl but keep growing. It won't be easy. |date=March 12, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Post and Courier]] Greenville |location=South Carolina |first=Anna B. |last=Mitchell |access-date=May 20, 2021}}</ref> The area was still very rural into the early 1990s before rapid growth made it a destination for shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. A 1983 [[USGS]] map of the region shows an [[asterisk]]- or star-shaped intersection of roads – Woodruff traversingpassing east–westthrough, with Adams Mill, Five Forks, and Scuffletown – before a Woodruff bypass and other realignment changed it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/SC/SC_Pelham_261431_1983_24000_geo.jpg |title=SC_Pelham_261431_1983_24000_geo |work=United States Geological Survey |year=1983 |format=[[JPEG]] |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref>