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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.
Ashley Heights is located in northwestern Hoke County along North Carolina Highway 211, which leads northwest 5 miles (8 km) to Aberdeen and southeast 12 miles (19 km) to Raeford, the Hoke county seat. The community is in the Sandhills region of North Carolina and is bordered to the east by Fort Liberty.
Lack of adequate coverage from neighboring fire departments led the community to create a volunteer fire department in 1974. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Two years later residents appealed for the city of Hamlet to annex the community, but the municipal government rejected the proposal, citing the economically depressed nature of the area. [ 11 ]
The other was in Tuckasegee: Tuckasegee School, a combination Elementary and High School, was built in the 1940s after a fire destroyed the original early 1900s structure. It closed in 1958. Students in Little Canada and Upper Tuckasegee must now make a minimum 45-minute bus ride to attend Cullowhee Valley School in Cullowhee .
A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the ...
Northchase is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. Its population was 3,747 as of the 2010 census. [4] U.S. Route 117 passes through the community.
Siloam is an unincorporated community in southeastern Surry County, North Carolina, United States.The Yadkin River makes up the community's southern border, and the Ararat River flows between it and the community of Shoals to the east.
Grassy Creek's Zip Code Tabulation Area (Zip Code 28631) has a population of 511 as of the 2000 census. The population is 53.4% male and 46.6% female. About 92.2% of the population is white, 1.2% African-American, 0.6% American Indian, 7.8% Hispanic, 5.3% some other race and 0.8% of people are two or more races.