Black Mountain
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town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Buncombe
- Incorporated
- March 4, 1893
- Total
- 6.73 sq mi (17.42 km )
- Land
- 6.71 sq mi (17.38 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 2,333 ft (711 m)
- Density
- 1,255.5/sq mi (484.76/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 37-06140
- Website
- townofblackmountain.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,426 at the 2020 United States census. It is part of the Asheville metropolitan area. The town is named for the old train stop at the Black Mountain Depot and is located at the southern end of the Black Mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Southern Appalachians.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black Mountain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.