A major economic feasibility study is now being conducted, as required for funding by the federal government. Previous studies have determined the structure of the airport and possible airport sites have been narrowed down to two sites – one located just south of Gaffney and one located outside of Blacksburg. A study to determine the feasibility of building an airport in the county revealed that an airport is desperately needed by businesses. With no airports of its own, Cherokee County is served by Charlotte/Douglas International Airport and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. Much of the county's growth occurs along I-85.
It carries traffic and trade contributing to the business development along Floyd Baker Blvd, the county's main thoroughfare, which bisects I-85. The lifeline of Cherokee County, I-85, runs through the city limits of Gaffney. Rutherford County, North Carolina – northwest.Cleveland County, North Carolina – north.Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (part).Kings Mountain National Military Park (part).It is the third-smallest county in South Carolina by land area and fourth-smallest by total area.ĭraytonville Mountain is known to locals as McKown's Mountain, named for a farmer who owned much of the land in that area. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 397 square miles (1,030 km 2), of which 393 square miles (1,020 km 2) is land and 4.5 square miles (12 km 2) (1.1%) is water. Enslaved African-Americans, for their labor, and as “property,” were the basis of the county’s economy until the end of the Civil War.ĭuring the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Cowpens was fought on January 17, 1781, in northwestern Cherokee County, north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, an engagement in the American Revolution's southern theatre resulting in a Patriot victory.Īccording to the U.S. Up until the mid-19th century, plantations were developed in the county.
This backcountry area was initially settled especially by immigrant Ulster Scots people, along with Germans and Anglo-Americans migrating into the area. In the mid-18th century, waves of British migrants and immigrants, an estimated 250,000 people, traveled by these paths into Cherokee and neighboring counties in the piedmont. The Lower Cherokee Traders Path especially connected areas in present-day western North Carolina, upstate South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. The former connected to Fredericksburg, Virginia, leading from the Virginia Tidewater, into the Piedmont, and continue down further South. The Upper Road and Lower Cherokee Traders Path were paths that passed through the piedmont. When European traders and settlers entered the area, they used the existing Native American paths: called collectively the Trading Path. This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples and by the historic Cherokee people before the arrival of Europeans. Ĭherokee County comprises the Gaffney, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area. It was named for the Cherokee people who historically occupied this area prior to European encounter. The county was formed in 1897 from parts of York, Union, and Spartanburg Counties.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,216.
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