Sharon South Carolina Map

About Sharon, South Carolina

Sharon is a locality in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 462. The population density is 136.2 people per km². Sharon is located at 34.9520°N, 81.3435°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Sharon is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 29620, 29742.

Sharon manifests as a quiet expanse of Piedmont earth where the horizon is defined by the soft, undulant relief of the landscape rather than the jagged peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, which remain a distant, hazy indigo suggestion to the west. It lies 15.0 miles west-southwest of Greenwood, SC (from Greenwood, SC: bearing 254°T), and is situated 3.6 miles southwest of Abbeville. Flagreed Creek carves a meditative path through the red-clay soil a mile from the center, its waters feeding the verdant, tangled corridors of the surrounding woodlands. The light at dusk here possesses a peculiar, heavy amber quality, clinging to the tall pines and the wide, open fields that define the borders of Sharon. Only four miles away, the quiet basin of Parsons Mountain Lake offers a stillness that complements the rhythmic, slow-turning pace of the surrounding countryside.

Agriculture and the legacy of the textile era have long provided the structural skeleton for the economy of Sharon, leaving behind a quiet resilience that persists in the weathered wood of old barns and the disciplined rows of crops. While the sprawling, shadowed canopy of Sumter National Forest provides a deep, pine-scented lungs for the region nine miles out, the local pulse is more immediately felt at the Pete Smith Sports Complex, where the evening air often fills with the sharp, rhythmic crack of a bat against a ball. This is a place where the weight of historical layers—from the agrarian foundations to the modern persistence of a rural interior—is carried in the simple, unadorned daily routines of the residents. Life in Sharon moves with the deliberate gravity of a pendulum, steady and unhurried, grounded by the soil and the persistent, quiet growth of the surrounding timberland.

About This Sharon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sharon, South Carolina. Coordinates: 34.952023, -81.343523. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Sharon includes the ZIP code (29620, 29742), telephone area code (864), county seat of Abbeville County (Abbeville), and school district assignment (York School District 1).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.