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Five Forks South Carolina Map

Explore Five Forks, South Carolina, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Five Forks, South Carolina

How to Use This Five Forks, South Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Five Forks, South Carolina. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of South Carolina or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Five Forks.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Five Forks
State	South Carolina (SC)
County	Anderson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.809889
Longitude	-82.22291
Population	17,737
Density	904.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	29512, 29670, 29657, 29681
Area Code	864
County Seat	Anderson
School District	Greenville County School District

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About Five Forks, South Carolina

Five Forks is a locality in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. It has a population of 17,737. The population density is 904.5 people per km². Five Forks is located at 34.8099°N, 82.2229°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 29512, 29670, 29657.

Five Forks emerges from the red-clay expanse of the piedmont, where the earth holds a deep, rusted hue that stains the tires of passing trucks and marks the edges of every garden. It lies 9.0 miles north of Anderson, SC (from Anderson, SC: bearing 353°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north-northeast of Centerville. The horizon toward the northwest remains defined by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, grounding the landscape in a vast, geologic permanence. Nearby, the quiet progress of Millwee Creek carves a narrow path through the woodland, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-country gravity that reflects the dense canopy of pines and hardwoods overhead. During the heat of mid-afternoon, the air thickens with the scent of damp soil and pine needles, while the light shifts into a heavy, golden quality that seems to stall over the fields, turning the dusty roads into ribbons of burnished copper.

Five Forks maintains a pace dictated by the seasonal cycles of the upstate, where the labor of the land has long since transitioned from traditional agriculture into the steady, modern pulse of local commerce and residential growth. Residents find respite in the proximity of Hartwell Recreation Area, a place where the stillness of the woods offers a necessary contrast to the steady hum of vehicle traffic navigating the crossroads. A few miles further, the expansive surface of Anderson Reservoir provides a cooling influence on the evening air, its presence a silent anchor in an otherwise terrestrial region. The character of Five Forks persists in this quiet balance, where the weight of historical industry lingers in the architecture of older storehouses, yet the daily life remains focused on the pragmatic, forward-looking rhythm of a community anchored firmly to the inland soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Five Forks Plantation Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 122° SE
Highgrove Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 297° NW
Mesa Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 082° E
Praying Hands (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 289° W
Cherokee Boundary (1767) (Monument) — 3.1 mi, 355° N
Balancing Act (Public Artwork) — 3.1 mi, 262° W
9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 330° NW
Heritage Park (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 183° S
CCNB Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 6.1 mi, 183° S
Studio Jarvis (Gallery) — 7.1 mi, 251° W
Model Trains Station (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 335° NW
M106a1 (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 000° N
Barnett Gallery (Gallery) — 9.0 mi, 358° N
Performance Hall (Theatre) — 9.0 mi, 300° NW
Rock Quarry Falls (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 283° W
Kilgore-Lewis House (Attraction) — 10.1 mi, 288° W
Falls Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.4 mi, 284° W
Reedy River Falls (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 284° W
Peace Center for the Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 10.5 mi, 284° W
Camp Highland ruins (Historic Ruins) — 10.9 mi, 357° N
Paris Mountain State Park (State Park) — 11.3 mi, 315° NW
Florence Chappel High School (Historic Ruins) — 12.1 mi, 034° NE
Children's Museum of the Upstate - Spartanburg (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 059° NE
Croft State Park (State Park) — 20.1 mi, 079° E
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 28.5 mi, 119° SE · 375k acres
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 42.1 mi, 320° NW · 511k acres

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