Five Forks

History

Five Forks is named for a conflux of five roads, which the Greenville edition of The Post and Courier identifies as Woodruff (the main east–west artery), Batesville, Scuffletown, Bennetts Bridge, and one now called Five Forks Road. 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 passing through, with Adams Mill, Five Forks, and Scuffletown – before a Woodruff bypass and other realignment changed it. In 2019, Niche.com ranked Five Forks as the best place to live, and second best place to raise a family, out of 190 best places in South Carolina. In April 2019, an EF1 tornado was confirmed to have touched down, beginning in Simpsonville and ending its path in Five Forks. In March 2021, an area plan for Five Forks was posted by Greenville County for comment. The plan had been developed since 2018 by a committee of Five Forks residents to address heavy traffic, loss of trees, and inconsistent growth, and covers commercial design, environmental protection, and goals for residential control. A motion for the council to adopt the plan as an amendment to the county's comprehensive plan was unanimously carried in August 2021.

Geography

Five Forks is located in eastern Greenville County east of Downtown Greenville. The area is bounded by SC 14 to the west, Roper Mountain and Anderson Ridge roads to the north, Jonesville Road to the east, and Gilder Creek (a tributary of the Enoree River) to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.59%, is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  16,954
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  13,533
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  11,728
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  11,523
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  11,326
• Eastern Bluebird

  Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  10,154
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  9,686
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  9,219

Largest nearby schools

• Cyber Academy of South Carolina
  Other · Greenville · 3,985 students · 23.4:1 ratio
• Mauldin High
  High · Mauldin · 2,314 students · 19:1 ratio
• Hillcrest High
  High · Simpsonville · 2,192 students · 19.7:1 ratio
• J. L. Mann High Academy
  High · Greenville · 2,076 students · 18.7:1 ratio
• Riverside High
  High · Greer · 1,847 students · 20.1:1 ratio
• Wade Hampton High
  High · Greenville · 1,831 students · 19.1:1 ratio
• Ruldolph G. Gordon School at Jones Mill
  Elementary · Simpsonville · 1,698 students · 16.5:1 ratio
• Eastside High
  High · Taylors · 1,551 students · 19.6:1 ratio

Most recent

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• M 2.53 — 2024-10-13
  3 km NNW of Coronaca, South Carolina
• M 2.69 — 2022-12-08
  0 km S of Laurel Park, North Carolina