The Travelers Rest plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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3.05 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1884. The next wettest, 3.02 inches, fell in 1889.
Travelers Rest’s center stands about 1,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 990 ft to 1,740 ft, a difference of 750 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Little Rich Mountain, about 3,330 ft, 15 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Migmatitic granitoid gneiss, from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Travelers Rest reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Reedy, the Saluda, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 330 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lib Pines Lake and Lake Murray.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Travelers Rest; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Travelers Rest has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Travelers Rest normally reaches 63° and falls to 41°. The record high is 79°, in 2007; the record low 20°, in 1906. The most rain on this date, 1.31 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1884 from the Greenville-Spartanburg Area threaded record (Grnvl Spart International Airport, 14 miles east-southeast, 130 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
