Inman was incorporated by South Carolina on December 22, 1882 at the crossroads of Howard Gap and Blackstock.

[8] The town emerged as a small settlement, with businesses such as a blacksmith, a bank, and even a barber shop springing up around the depot.

[6] The Bush House and Shiloh Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[11] In 1935, a local man named Bryson Hammet found a large stone off South Carolina highway 292 with various markings and the year 1567 carved into it.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

The weather is temperate year-round, due to its location in the Isothermal Belt, a phenomenon that results when warmer air on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains blows over the mountains, leaving a 60-mile-wide (97 km) trough where significant temperature inversions of 20 degrees Fahrenheit or greater can occur.