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Map of Polk County, North Carolina with Municipal and Township labels In 1839 a post office was established at the Top of Howard Gap and Holberts Cove Roads run by the Thompson Family, named the Tryon Post office ,In early Polk what is now the Saluda township was called the Tryon township, present day Tryon was in the Columbus Township [ 15 ...
Tryon is an unincorporated community in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is in Cherryville Township, located approximately 4.7 miles (7.6 km) southeast of the city of Cherryville on North Carolina Highway 274. The rural Gaston County election precinct centered on Tryon had a voting-age population of 1524 in the 2000 Census. [3]
This was the primary highway linking Saluda and Tryon to Hendersonville and Spartanburg, SC. prior to the delayed completion of I-26 in 1976. Two North Carolina routes, NC 108 and NC 9, traverse the county as well. NC 108 begins in Rutherfordton and travels west through Columbus and ends at
Cherryville Township is a township in northwestern Gaston County, North Carolina, United States.As of the 2010 census it had a population of 16,500. [2] It includes the incorporated city of Cherryville, the inactive incorporated town of Dellview, the unincorporated community of Tryon, and a portion of the town of High Shoals (most of which is in Dallas Township).
Interactive map of Lincoln County According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 304.87 square miles (789.6 km 2 ), of which 295.85 square miles (766.2 km 2 ) is land and 9.02 square miles (23.4 km 2 ) (2.96%) is water.
The Salisbury District originally included Anson, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Surry, and Tryon counties. A later addition was the Washington District (also known as the original Washington County, North Carolina ), which covered most of the present day State of Tennessee . [ 6 ]
The township also includes the unincorporated area of Brown Town. Fire protection in unincorporated areas of the township is provided by Community Volunteer Fire Department (Station 32) in the north, Union Road VFD (Station 51) in the southwest, New Hope Fire Department (Station 50) in the south-central, and South Point VFD (Station 42) in the ...
North Carolina's 1868 constitution adopted a "Township and County Commissioner Plan" for structuring local government, largely inspired by provisions in Pennsylvania's constitution. Townships were created under the county unit of government, with every county divided into them, and each given their own township board.