Spartanburg, South Carolina "Spartanburg"
Spartanburg .
Spartanburg, South Carolina City of Spartanburg Top, left to right: Spartanburg skyline, Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, Wofford College, Chapman Cultural Center, Daniel Morgan Monument, Chapman Cultural Center Top, left to right: Spartanburg skyline, Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, Wofford College, Chapman Cultural Center, Daniel Morgan Monument, Chapman Cultural Center Official logo of Spartanburg, South Carolina Nickname(s): The Hub City; Sparkle City; The Burg Spartanburg's locale in South Carolina Spartanburg's locale in South Carolina State South Carolina County Spartanburg Demonym Spartanburgers Spartanburg is the biggest city in and the governmental center of county of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, and the 12th-largest town/city by populace in the state.
Spartanburg has a municipal populace of 37,013 and an urban populace of 180,786 as of the 2010 census. The Spartanburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, including Spartanburg and Union counties, had a populace of 317,057 as of the 2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Spartanburg is the second-largest town/city in the greater Greenville Spartanburg Anderson Combined Statistical Area, which has a populace of 1,385,045 as of 2014. It is part of a 10-county region of northwestern South Carolina known as "The Upstate," and is positioned 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Columbia, 80 miles (130 km) west of Charlotte, North Carolina, and about 190 miles (310 km) northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Spartanburg was formed in 1785 and was titled after a small-town militia called the Spartan Regiment in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1831, Spartanburg was incorporated, later becoming known as the "Hub City": barns lines radiated from the town/city forming the shape of a wheel hub.
Spartanburg in 1909.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.2 square miles (50 km2), of which 19.1 square miles (49 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 0.47%, is water.
The town/city of Spartanburg has a humid subtropical climate with long, hot and humid summers, and cool to semi mild winters.
Spartanburg sees very little snowfall, with the annual average being only 1.4 inches.
Climate data for Spartanburg, South Carolina Parks and woodlands line much of its banks (which lie entirely inside Spartanburg County), and rocky shoals and natural waterfalls can be found throughout its course.
Walnut Grove Plantation, an 18th-century farmhouse, has been preserved by The Spartanburg County Historical Association.
The plantation lies south of Spartanburg near the town of Roebuck, and is open to the enhance for tours and amid annual festivals.
First established in the 1780s as a courthouse village, Spartanburg may have been titled for the Spartan regiment of the South Carolina militia.
The Magnolia Street Train Depot is one of the older buildings in Spartanburg and stands as a reminder of Spartanburg's old nickname "the Hub City," referring to the many transit routes that connected Spartanburg with metros/cities throughout the region. It is now the home of the Amtrak station, the Hub City Railroad Museum, and the Hub City Farmers' Market.
Hampton Heights Historic District is the city's earliest endured downtown neighborhood, positioned a couple of blocks south of Morgan Square.
Cotton mills have abounded in the Spartanburg region since 1816, earning Spartanburg the reputation as the "Lowell of the South." Beaumont Mill,north of the downtown, has recently been purchased by Spartanburg Regional Healthcare who moved their billing, human resources, and medical records to the 180,000 square foot mill. The adjoining foundry village has been designated as a small-town historic district. This is now a South Carolina state park with the same name.
Spartanburg operates under a town/city manager form of government in which the mayor and six town/city council members have equal votes.
The council appoints a town/city manager, who is responsible for the daily administration of town/city governmental affairs. City Hall is positioned at 145 West Broad Street.
The Spartanburg County Administration Building (this is the old Sears building which was vacated in the mid-1970s when Sears moved to Westgate Mall and renovated in the late 1980s or early 1990s) is positioned at 366 North Church Street.
It is athwart the street from the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.
BMW Spartanburg factory Within the past decade, developers and improve leaders have spearheaded an accomplishment to revitalize Spartanburg's downtown commercial district.
The world command posts of Denny's restaurants is also positioned in downtown Spartanburg.
The economy of Spartanburg benefits from the BMW manufacturing facility positioned in the end of Spartanburg County.
However, a year later when the newer 3 Series (E46) platform emerged, BMW decided not to build it at the Spartanburg plant, but instead exclusively manufacture variants of the prominent Z3.
Spartanburg is also home to the world command posts and research facility for Milliken & Company, a textile and chemical manufacturer.
According to Spartanburg's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the principal employers in the town/city are: 1 Spartanburg Regional 6,400 2 Spartanburg County 1,437 3 Spartanburg County School District 7 1,243 8 City of Spartanburg 438 Spartanburg is a college town, with eight establishments of higher learning: The University of South Carolina Upstate (formerly known as University of South Carolina Spartanburg, or USCS).
Sherman College of Chiropractic South Carolina's only chiropractic college Spartanburg Community College Spartanburg Methodist College The only 2-year, private, residentiary college in the state.
Most of the City of Spartanburg's enhance schools are run by Spartanburg County School District 7, one of seven loosely affiliated districts positioned in Spartanburg County.
However, the westernmost part of the town/city is served by Spartanburg County School District 6, which has two elementary schools inside town/city limits.
Spartanburg is home to the chief campus of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.
It has five Regional Outreach Centers throughout the state. The town/city is also home to Spartanburg Preparatory School, a K-8 enhance charter school that is the only "brick and mortar" charter school in the Upstate. Spartanburg is also home to Spartanburg Christian Academy, a K-12 private school in North Spartanburg, the Spartanburg Day School, a K-12 private school offering the International Baccalaureate in grades K-4, and to Oakbrook Preparatory and Westgate Christian schools, both K-12 private schools. Located in Hampton Heights, the Montessori Academy of Spartanburg is a Pre - K-8 private school providing a Montessori educational approach. The Meeting Street Academy in downtown Spartanburg is a branch of a Charleston-based private school and presently offers Pre - K and Kindergarten. Paul the Apostle Catholic School is positioned in downtown Spartanburg.
Spartanburg County's healthcare is mainly provided by the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
Spartanburg Regional is a public, not-for-profit, integrated community care bringy fitness based in the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, a 588-bed teaching and research hospital.
SRHS provides healthcare services to a five-county region in North and South Carolina, serving an Upstate medical populace of more than 300,000 citizens .
Retrofest, the Southeast's biggest disco festival held at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium on the first Saturday in February.
The South - East Linux - Fest annual, well attended Linux and open origin software conference for the southeast held in Spartanburg in 2010 and 2011.
Dickens of a Christmas, a Victorian holiday event held annually in downtown Spartanburg on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
It is held in the heart of downtown Spartanburg with food trucks, over 40 BBQ teams, and two days of live music.
The Spartanburg Museum of Art The Spartanburg Regional Museum of History The Spartanburg Science Center Spartanburg Music Trail which is a series of signs throughout downtown recognizing famous small-town musicians.
Several golf courses, including two private 18-hole courses at the Country Club of Spartanburg and the Carolina Country Club.
Spartanburg is host to the NFL's Carolina Panthers training camp each year on the ground of Wofford College.
Historic Duncan Park Stadium was once home to the Spartanburg Stingers in the Coastal Plain League and the Spartanburg Crickets in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League and is the earliest minor league baseball stadium in the country.
It was also once home to the Spartanburg Phillies, a minor league team of the Philadelphia Phillies.
It now is the home stadium for the baseball squads of Spartanburg High School.
It is a high school football all-star game played between the top players from South Carolina and the top players from North Carolina.
The BMW Charity Pro-Am is a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour held each year in May at three courses in the Upstate, including the Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg.
The USC Upstate Spartans, Spartanburg Methodist College Pioneers, and the Wofford College Terriers offer a range of sports for both men and women.
The Southern Conference of the NCAA is headquartered in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg is positioned an hour away from the Clemson Tigers and about an hour and a half away from the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.
The Spartanburg Parks Commission hosts a several travel baseball and softball tournaments each year, helping brand the town/city as one of the Southeast's most reputable tournament locations.
Spartanburg has, throughout its history, been a fruitful home to a creative community.
The Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg's cultural anchor for history, art, theatre, dance, music, and science, is positioned in a three-building complex on the northern edge of downtown.
It homes the Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg County Regional History Museum, Science Center, Little Theatre, Ballet, Music Foundation, and other groups that were formerly positioned in The Arts Center on South Spring Street.
It is owned and directed by The Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting arts and cultural agencies in Spartanburg County.
It was launched in March 2005 by the Hub City Writers Project with assistance from private donors and the town/city of Spartanburg.
The Showroom also homed the first TEDx Spartanburg event on September 10, 2011. Home of the Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Twitchell Auditorium has served as hosts to other groups such as the Spartanburg All-County High School Band and Boston Brass.
The Spartanburg County Public Library headquarters, homed in an innovative building on South Church Street, is home to a voluminous compilation of fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, A/V materials and items relating to small-town history and genealogy.
The Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium is positioned on N.
Church Street, athwart from the municipal building in the northwest end of the town/city of Spartanburg.
Spartanburg's major journal is the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, a member of the Halifax Media Group. The Spartanburg Journal is a weekly journal that is part of a Community Journal group that also has editions in Greenville and Anderson.
The Spartan Weekly News is a weekly journal with offices positioned in downtown Spartanburg.
The paper covers all of Spartanburg County with an emphasis on the town/city of Spartanburg, and its coverage focuses on items of improve interest and well as news from around the upstate of South Carolina.
The award-winning Hometown News Group has a several newspapers throughout the county and upstate region: The Boiling Springs Sentry, The Blacksburg Times, The Inman Times, Spartanburg County News, The Chesnee Tribune, The Middle Tyger Times, The Whitmire News, The Woodruff News, and The Greer Citizen.
Upstate Link periodical is a young reader (20s 30s) newsweekly in the Upstate of South Carolina, which includes Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson.
Spartanburg is part of the much greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson-Asheville DMA which is the nation's 35th biggest and is served by the following primary tv affiliates: WSPA 7 (CBS)- transmitting from Spartanburg WYCW 62 (The CW Network)- Licensed to Ashville but transmitting and transmitting from Spartanburg South Carolina 9.svg South Carolina 9 South Carolina 295.svg South Carolina 295 South Carolina 56.svg South Carolina 56 South Carolina 296.svg South Carolina 296 South Carolina 215.svg South Carolina 215 South Carolina 129.svg South Carolina 129 Spartanburg is served by the Spartanburg Area Regional Transit Agency (SPARTA), covering the town/city of Spartanburg and the encircling urbanized region with 8 routes dominant to a wide range of destinations.
Mass Transit is provided to all people of Spartanburg County through Spartanburg County Dial-A-Ride.
The Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) lies mostly in Spartanburg County in suburban Greer, and it serves Greenville as well as Spartanburg.
The Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport (SPA) is a general aviation airport owned and directed by the City, which lies southwest of town. Amtrak's Crescent train joins Spartanburg with the metros/cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Greensboro, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
See also: Demographics of Spartanburg County East Spartanburg Mark Hammond (born 1963), South Carolina Secretary of State Johnsen (born 1962), founder and owner of Spartanburg's first and only brewery, RJ Rockers Brewing Company Johnson (1858 1919), United States Representative from South Carolina Nicholls (1885 1937), United States Representative from South Carolina Betsy Rawls (born 1928), pro golfer, member of World Golf Hall of Fame, born in Spartanburg Russell (1906 1998), former South Carolina governor, president of the University of South Carolina, US Senator, and member of the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Archibald Rutledge (1883 1973), South Carolina poet laureate, resided in Spartanburg for about 20 years Part of downtown Spartanburg Lists of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Metropolitan Divisions, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, Combined Statistical Areas, and New England City and Town Area Delineations: This bulletin and its appendix that provides the nine lists of statistical areas are available electronically from the OMB web site at https://whitehouse.gov/omb under "Bulletins;" of note, this update, historical delineations, and other knowledge about populace statistics is available on the Enumeration Bureau's web site at: https://census.gov/populationimetro.
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