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Roanoke Rapids is located in northern Halifax County bordered to the north by Northampton County, with the county line following the Roanoke River.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles (25.9 km 2), of which 10.0 square miles (25.8 km 2) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.36%, are water.
The Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA) as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in North Carolina, anchored by the city of Roanoke Rapids. As of the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 79,456 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 74,716). [2]
Roanoke Rapids bus terminal, erected in 1941 at 1114 Roanoke Ave, [3] is shown with a Carolina Trailways bus, in a postcard from the North Carolina State Archives. The former Carolina Trailways Bus Terminal, located at 1114 Roanoke Avenue, was the site of the event that lead to the United States Supreme Court case of Keys v.
The weekly Roanoke Rapids Herald was founded in 1914 by editor and publisher J.T. Stainback. From 1929 to 1947 the newspaper was owned and edited by Carroll Wilson. The newspaper was purchased by Milton and James Wick—later Wick Communications—in 1947.
In 2013, AIM unveiled a plan to develop the area as The Cedars, an homage to Kimberly's former name of The Cedars. [15] In 2017 the Village [clarification needed] acquired the land from AIM and is continuing the project. [16] The William and Susanna Geenen House was designed by Henry Wildhagen and constructed in 1921.
Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport covers an area of 797 acres (323 ha) at an elevation of 145 feet (44 m) above mean sea level.It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 101 feet (1,676 x 31 m).
Roanoke is the largest city along both the Appalachian Trail, which runs through Roanoke County just north of the city, [61] and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs just south of the city. [62] Carvins Cove, the third-largest municipal park in America at 12,700 acres (51 km 2), lies in northeast Roanoke County and southwest Botetourt County. [63]
The original location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Roanoke city limits in Roanoke County. The location was secured on July 1, 1929, when the city of Roanoke signed the lease on the land to operate the Roanoke Municipal Airport. [7] The original facility had a single 83 feet (25 m) x 100 feet (30 m) hangar and a pair of dirt runways.