Editing Five Forks, South Carolina (section)

==History==
[[File:Five Forks, South Carolina.webp|thumb|left|Woodruff Road in 2021 between Batesville and Five Forks Roads]]
Five Forks is named for a conflux of five roads, which the Greenville edition of ''[[The Post and Courier]]'' identifies as [[South Carolina Highway 146|Woodruff]] (the main east–west artery), Batesville, Scuffletown, [[South Carolina Highway 296|Bennetts Bridge]], and one now called [[South Carolina Highway 296|Five Forks Road]].<ref name=pandc>{{cite news |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/business/a-traffic-choked-greenville-suburb-wants-to-stop-sprawl-but-keep-growing-it-wont-be/article_7a243fea-8042-11eb-b9c5-27060dda350f.html |title=A traffic-choked Greenville suburb wants to stop sprawl but keep growing. It won't be easy. |date=March 12, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Post and Courier]] Greenville |location=South Carolina |first=Anna B. |last=Mitchell |access-date=May 20, 2021}}</ref> The area was still very rural into the early 1990s before rapid growth made it a destination for shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. A 1983 [[USGS]] map of the region shows an [[asterisk]]- or star-shaped intersection of roads – Woodruff passing through, with Adams Mill, Five Forks, and Scuffletown – before a Woodruff bypass and other realignment changed it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/SC/SC_Pelham_261431_1983_24000_geo.jpg |title=SC_Pelham_261431_1983_24000_geo |work=United States Geological Survey |year=1983 |format=[[JPEG]] |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref>

In 2019, [[Niche (company)|Niche.com]] ranked Five Forks as the best place to live, and second best place to raise a family, out of 190 best places in South Carolina.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://greenvillejournal.com/homes/places-five-forks-one-of-the-most-popular-8-square-miles-in-greenville-county/ |title=Places: Five Forks: one of the most popular 8 square miles in Greenville County |date=October 26, 2019 |newspaper=Greenville Journal |first=Kimberly |last=Collier |access-date=May 19, 2021 }}</ref>

In [[Tornado outbreak of April 13–15, 2019|April 2019]], an [[EF1 tornado]] was confirmed to have touched down, beginning in Simpsonville and ending its path in Five Forks.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wyff4.com/article/severe-storms-possible-tornadoes-forecast-sunday/27129491 |title=Tornado confirmed in Simpsonville, NWS says |date=April 15, 2019 |work=[[WYFF]] |access-date=June 4, 2021 }}</ref>

In March 2021, an area plan for Five Forks was posted by Greenville County for comment. The plan had been developed since 2018 by a committee of Five Forks residents to address heavy traffic, loss of trees, and inconsistent growth, and covers commercial design, environmental protection, and goals for residential control.<ref name="pandc" /> All three county council members who represent parts of Five Forks support the plan, and no one spoke against it at a public hearing in May 2021. The county's addition of overlay districts, as suggested by the plan, would legally govern future development in Five Forks.<ref name=pcnc>{{cite news |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/business/five-forks-area-plan-seeking-to-manage-rapid-growth-begins-county-approval-process/article_261dcf46-b77a-11eb-b61c-5fea0a8c6164.html |title=Five Forks Area Plan, seeking to manage rapid growth, begins county approval process |date=May 17, 2021 |newspaper=Post and Courier Greenville |location=South Carolina |first=Nathaniel |last=Cary |access-date=June 3, 2021 }}</ref> A motion for the council to adopt the plan as an amendment to the county's comprehensive plan was unanimously carried in August 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greenvillecounty.org/council/_agenda/meetings%20of%202021/county%20council/2021.09.07/August%2017%20%20CC%20minutes.pdf#page=4 |title=Regular Council Meeting Minutes |date=August 17, 2021 |website=Greenville County Council |page=4 |access-date=October 23, 2021 }}</ref>