Greer, South Carolina

Greer is a city in the Upstate region of South Carolina in the southeastern United States, lying in both Greenville and Spartanburg counties, about midway between the cities of Greenville and Spartanburg. It grew around a station on the Richmond and Danville Air Line Railway, first known as Greer's Station after landowner James Manning Greer, and was incorporated in 1876 as the Town of Greer's before dropping the final letter of its name a century later. Textile mills and peach and cotton farming shaped its early economy, and the later arrival of Interstate 85 and the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport helped it diversify. The 2020 census counted 35,308 residents, making it the 14th most populous city in the state, and it forms part of the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metropolitan area.