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is a city located in the Upstate of South Carolina. It is the county seat of Cherokee County. The population was 12,968 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Gaffney, South Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area (population 52,537 according to year 2000 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau), an (MSA) which includes all of Cherokee County and which is further included in the greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area (population 1,185,534 according to year 2005 U.S. Census Bureau estimates).
Gaffney is located at (35.071667, -81.650000).
It is located within approximately of Charlotte, North Carolina and of Greenville, S.C. both are the most major cities it is near. It is served by the Charlotte, N.C. and Greenville, S.C major airports. These airports are almost equidistant from Gaffney with Charlotte being closer. It is also approxitmately North of Atlanta, Georgia. The other closest city is Spartanburg, S.C. which is south on I-85.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.9 square miles (20.4 km²), of which, 7.9 square miles (20.4 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it is water.