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Belmont is a small suburban city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, located about 9 miles (14 km) east of Gastonia. The population was 10,076 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Once known as Garibaldi Station, it was named for the New York banker August Belmont .
Metropolitan Statistical Area Population (2023 est.) [1] 1 22 Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia: 2,805,115 2 41 Raleigh–Cary: 1,509,231 3 78 Greensboro–High Point: 789,842 4 86 Winston-Salem: 695,630 5 94 Durham–Chapel Hill: 608,879 6 115 Wilmington: 467,337 7 131 Asheville: 417,202 8 142 Fayetteville: 392,336 9 150 Hickory–Lenoir ...
The Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Hall – in the state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 179,684 (though a July 1, 2016 estimate placed the population at 196,637).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 429 square miles (1,110 km 2), of which 393 square miles (1,020 km 2) is land and 37 square miles (96 km 2) (8.5%) is water. [6] The county is located in the upper Piedmont region of the state in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the north.
North Carolina Highway 29 (NC 29) was established 1930 when US 74/NC 20 was realigned onto new road; this was its second form. [3] In 1932, it was renumbered as NC 7. [2] The first NC 29 was an original state highway from the South Carolina state line, near Tuxedo, to English, located in Walnut Mountains. [4]
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
The Coastal Plain is the largest geographic area of the state, and covers roughly 45% of North Carolina. The Coastal Plain begins along the fall line , a line that marks the boundary between metamorphic/igneous rocks of the Piedmont province (to the west) and sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain province (to the east).
U.S. Route 270 (US 270) was a proposed U.S. Highway that was planned for the northern part of Georgia and the western part of North Carolina.Its western terminus was to be at US 29/Georgia State Route 8 (SR 8) and SR 13 in Lawrenceville; while its eastern terminus was slated to be at US 25/US 70/North Carolina Highway 10/North Carolina Highway 20/North Carolina Highway 29 (US 25/US 70/NC 10/NC ...