Greer, South Carolina Greer, South Carolina Official logo of Greer, South Carolina Location of Greer, South Carolina Location of Greer, South Carolina Greer is a town/city in Greenville and Spartanburg counties in the U.S.
Each day, more than three times that number of citizens pass through the town/city on the two highways which run through the city. The majority of the town/city is in Greenville County and is part of the Greenville Anderson Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town/city is extraly part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Travel Destination in Upstate South Carolina.
Greer is adjoining to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), which serves Greenville, Spartanburg, and the Upstate.
According to a June 2005 article in The Greenville News, BMW's Greer plant employs about 4,600 workers, and has thriving dozens of suppliers in South Carolina, providing jobs for more than 12,000 workers.
Greer is home to the South Carolina Inland Port, an intermodal facility that receives and sends containers by rail to the Port of Charleston.
Greer is positioned at 34 55 49 N 82 13 30 W (34.930304, 82.225052). It is 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Greenville and 17 miles (27 km) west of Spartanburg, both via U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.7 square miles (58.9 km2), of which 20.6 square miles (53.4 km2) are territory and 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2), or 9.18%, are water. Greer has three lakes: Lake Robinson, Apalache Lake and Lake Cunningham.
The South Tyger River runs through the northern part of Greer, part of the Broad River watershed.
Greer was titled for James Manning Greer, whose lineage traces from Scotland, through Ireland.
James Manning Greer was a descendant of John Greer, Sr.
John and his family were already in Laurens County, before to the Greer passengers who appeared aboard the ship The Falls in 1764.
John, Sr.'s great grandson James Manning Greer settled his family near Greenville in an region that eventually became Greer's Station.
Located in the picturesque foothills of the Upstate region of South Carolina, Greer appreciates a distinguished past, from its days as a hunting ground for small-town Cherokees, to its settlement by pioneering families in the 1700s, to the advent of the barns in the 1800s.
The region now known as Greer was once part of the "Domain of the Cherokees" before to the American Revolutionary War.
A station was assembled on territory that belonged to James Manning Greer, and was titled Greer's Station.
The first postal service was positioned in the new depot, Greer's Depot.
One hundred years later, the name was officially changed to the City of Greer without an "s" on the end.
Merchants, blacksmiths and physicians set up shop in what is now the downtown region of Greer.
In 1900, Greer's first bank, the Bank of Greer's, opened.
Greer also became a textile-manufacturing center, with expand mills that encompassed Victor, Franklin, Apalache and Greer Mills.
Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts between 1938 and 1941 for postal services and federal buildings throughout South Carolina. The building is now home to the Greer Heritage Museum.
People came to downtown Greer from Spartanburg and Greenville to shop.
Imports derailed the textile trade in the 1970s and threatened to turn Greer into a ghost town, but the people of Greer worked together to attract new industry. The Arthur Barnwell House, Davenport House, Gilreath's Mill, Greer Depot, Greer Downtown Historic District, Greer Post Office, Louie James House, R.
The town/city of Greer has a grow recreation sports program.
Greer Recreation (Greer Rec) has many sports opportunities.
City Stadium in Greer is a WPA universal completed in 1938; it presently seats 3,000.
In 2012 the City of Greer successfully renovated the Cannon Center, a former National Guard armory that later became a basketball gym.
The City Recreation Department has been honored with South Carolina Recreation and Parks Agency of the Year twice since 2005.
Greer City Park is part of the City of Greer's Municipal Complex that was instead of in 2008, the 12-acre Greer City Park is positioned adjoining to Greer City Hall and offers various recreational opportunities in Historic Greer Station.
Greer is served by the Greenville Spartanburg International Airport Roger Milliken Field, which in 2012 handled over 1.7 million passengers. The airport is a commercial Class C airport positioned 4 miles (6 km) south of the center of Greer, midway between Greenville and Spartanburg.
Greer is also inside 20 miles (32 km) of Donaldson Center Airport, Greenville Downtown Airport, and Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport all general aviation facilities.
Greer is served by Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, which operates to both Greenville and Spartanburg.
Greer is the locale of the South Carolina Inland Port, an inland port assembled to handle containerized goods.
Route 29 runs through Greer, connecting Greenville and Spartanburg.
South Carolina Highway 14 and South Carolina Highway 290 both run through Greer.
SC 14 leads north 18 miles (29 km) to Landrum, near the North Carolina border, and south 16 miles (26 km) to Simpsonville, while SC 290 leads east 5 miles (8 km) to Duncan and northwest 13 miles (21 km) to U.S.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Greer city, South Carolina".
"Greer, South Carolina".
City of Greer official website "BMW executive says Greer plant is vital to company's future", a June 2005 article from The Greenville News Municipalities and communities of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States
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