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Asheboro
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city in North Carolina, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Randolph
- Incorporated
- December 25, 1796
- Named after
- Samuel Ashe
- Type
- Council-manager
- Body
- Asheboro City Council
- Mayor
- Joey Trogdon
- City manager
- Donald Duncan Jr.
- Total
- 19.00 sq mi (49.20 km )
- Land
- 18.90 sq mi (48.95 km )
- Water
- 0.093 sq mi (0.24 km )
- Elevation
- 846 ft (258 m)
- Density
- 1,436.7/sq mi (554.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 27203-27205
- Area code
- 336 -743
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Asheboro
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Randolph County
- Population
- 27156
- Area
- 48.238457
- Elevation
- 255
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Randolph County
- Official website
- www.ci.asheboro.nc.us
- Image
- Randolph County Courthouse - Asheboro, NC.jpg
- Households
- 10741
- Dialing code
- 336
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- Commons category
- Asheboro, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Asheboro, North Carolina
- postal code
- 27205
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Asheboro, North Carolina
- inception
- 1796-12-25
- different from
- Asheville
- P8168
- medical ethics
- water as percent of area
- 0.4966
- per capita income
- 20830
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Encyclopedic overview
Asheboro is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 27,156 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Area of the Piedmont Triad and is home of the state-owned North Carolina Zoo.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asheboro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.