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Hickory is a city in western North Carolina primarily located in Catawba County. The 25th most populous city in the state, it is located approximately 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Charlotte . Hickory's population in the 2022 United States Census Bureau estimate was 44,084.
The Hickory region is served by Interstate 40 which passes through the center of Catawba and Burke counties. Other important US highways in the region include: US 70 (east to Morehead City, west to Asheville), and US 321 (through Catawba and Caldwell Counties). Primary state routes include NC 10, NC 16, NC 18, NC 90, NC 127, and NC 150.
Catawba County (/ k ə ˈ t ɔː b ə / kuh-TAW-buh) [1] is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610. [2] Its county seat is Newton, [3] and its largest community is Hickory. The county is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In Mountain View, NC 127 has an interchange with US 321 which provides access to Interstate 40. Following this interchange, the highway enters the town of Brookford, North Carolina and is named Brookford Boulevard. Upon entering Hickory, NC 127 passes over I-40 and US 70/US 321 Business without interchanges. As NC 127 winds into Hickory as a ...
[8] and, for the most part, disappeared from the map. NC 10 was also known as the "Old Hickory Highway;" at the North Carolina State Capitol building there is a granite highway marker commemorating the North Carolina soldiers of the U.S. Army's 30th "Old Hickory" Division, who fought to break the Hindenburg Line in France during World War I. [9 ...
The state Forest Service has banned outdoor burning in 30 Western North Carolina counties in the wake of a spate of wildfires that have burned thousands of bone-dry acres.
Brookford is located in western Catawba County. It is bordered to the north by the City of Hickory and to the southwest by the unincorporated community of Mountain View. The town is located just to the southeast of the junction of Interstate 40 with U.S. Route 321 south of Hickory. As both of those highways are limited-access, the closest ...
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 ...