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Carolina Crossroads is a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) planned entertainment development near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina located near the intersection of I-95 and US 158.The development was hoped to bring new jobs to the area which had been affected in recent years as textile mills closed and jobs moved out of the area.
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.
North Carolina Highway 46 (NC 46) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina; it is entirely in Northampton County. The route primarily connects the communities on the north side of Roanoke Rapids Lake and Lake Gaston , as well as the north side of the Roanoke River in the county.
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 Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids Combined Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in northeastern North Carolina. As of the 2010 census , the CSA had a population of 310,416, with an estimated population of 297,726 in 2018. [ 2 ]
It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its elevation is 335 feet (102 m). [1] The Edmunds-Heptinstall House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [2
Halifax County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,622. [2] Its county seat is Halifax. [3]Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC Combined Statistical Area.
[9] [5] Rocky Mount is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 288,366 in 2023. [5] English and Scots traders encountered the indigenous people in this area of the falls of the Tar River beginning in the mid-1700s. Incorporated in 1867, the community ...