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Travelers Rest, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Travelers Rest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29690. The Survey maps it on the Paris Mountain quadrangle. 7,788 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Travelers Rest within Greenville County

On record in Travelers Rest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Travelers Rest grew from 4,576 to 7,788 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,576
20207,788+3,212 (+70%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Travelers Rest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Travelers Rest: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rabun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteUnknownMetamorphic
Westmoreland MineGoldPast ProducerVein Some Placer Work
Westmoreland MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Travelers Rest in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1996Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest$400,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest$5,000Public reported a large tree limb fell on and damaged the roof of a home on Kimberly Dr.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest$2,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing multiple power outages between Travelers Rest and Tigerville.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Law enforcement and the public reported multiple trees blown down from east of Travelers Rest to the Blue Ridge community.
March 2017HailTravelers Rest-Public reported (via Social Media) 2-inch diameter hail reported off Mosteller Rd.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down on State Park Rd and another tree down at Jackson Grove Rd and Walker Rd.
April 2015HailTravelers Rest-County comms reported quarter size hail in Travelers Rest.
June 2013Heavy RainTravelers Rest-Very heavy rain fell across northwest Greenville County during the late evening hours. An NWS employee located 3 miles south of Tigerville reported 4.63 inches of rain during the course of the evening. The heavy rain caused deep pooling of water in many locations in this mainly rural part of the county as ditches filled with water. Some roads were briefly closed and many were at least partially covered, including highways 25 and 441.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Multiple trees and power lines were blown down along the highway 25/276 corridor from just south of Travelers Rest to the Furman area.
May 2013HailTravelers Rest-Quarter size hail was reported near Travelers Rest.
March 2012HailTravelers Rest-Quarter size hail fell at Southcreek Dr.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-A tree was blown down near the intersection of highways 25 and 276.
May 2010HailTravelers Rest-Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across the west side of Taylors.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Several trees were blown down near the intersection of highways 290 and 253.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, as well as large limbs blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Trees down in several areas south of Travelers Rest.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-A couple of trees were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Some trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-City and county officials reported numerous trees down in northern Greenville County. One tree damaged a fence at North Greenville College.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-Trees blown over onto U.S. 25.
July 2012HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 2010HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
May 2009HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 2009HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
July 2008HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 2006HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-no account filed
July 2003HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 1999HailTravelers Rest-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTravelers Rest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunny Slopes1.2 miles13
Renfrew1.2 miles13
Points North1.3 miles13
Stratford Forest2.2 miles13
Little Texas2.4 miles13
Brookgreen2.5 miles13
Bellvue3.2 miles17
Richmond Hills3.3 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Travelers RestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2948081The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251197. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.