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Martha Quillin. November 10, 2023 at 3:30 AM. 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 ...
November 7, 2023 at 8:27 AM. The Collett Ridge fire has grown to more than 4.5 square miles in Cherokee County, North Carolina — growing by more than 750 acres in a single day. The U.S. Forest ...
The Locust Cost Fire No. 2 in the Sunnyvale area of McDowell County is currently 25% contained at 165 acres, according to a Dec. 2 email from Bunty. There have not been any injuries, structural ...
Added to NRHP. February 20, 2002. Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located between Meeting House Branch and E. Firetower Road in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. The original church building was set on fire on December 30, 1863, by Union forces under the command of Col. Joseph M. McChesney. [2]
Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain. As of the 2020 census, there were 87,521 people in the city. [6] The city has continued to see a population and economic boom with most of the growth being seen in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Added to NRHP. March 1, 2007. Dickinson Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Greenville. It includes buildings dated from about 1902 to 1956 and ...
Collett Ridge Fire. The largest current wildfire in WNC — located near Andrews in the Cherokee County of Nantahala National Forest — has grown another 744 acres in a day, from 4,371 acres Nov ...
2015 June 24 At Briar Creek Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, an unknown arsonist started a three-alarm fire, causing more than $250,000 in damages. [24] 2016 November 1 The 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was burned and vandalized with the words "Vote Trump" spray-painted onto the building ...