Canton
Canton is the second largest town in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. It is located about 17 miles west of Asheville and is part of that city's metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0.
- Type: Town with 3,930 residents
- Description: town in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Buford”, “Canton, NC”, “Canton, North Carolina”, and “Pigeon River”
- Postal code: 28716
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coburn.
Coburn
Locality
Coburn is an unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Coburn is located along US 74, West of Candler and East of Canton. At one time, Coburn was a whistle stop for the Southern Railway on the Murphy Branch. Coburn is situated 4½ miles east of Canton.
Canton
- Categories: town in the United States, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Beaverdam Township, Haywood, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.53288° or 35° 31′ 58″ northLongitude
-82.83736° or 82° 50′ 15″ westPopulation
3,930Elevation
2,615 feet (797 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CNQOpen location code
867VG5M7+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 154357593OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Canton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانتون”
- Armenian: “Կանտոն”
- Basque: “Canton”
- Catalan: “Canton”
- Cebuano: “Canton”
- Chechen: “Кантон”
- Chinese: “Canton”
- Chinese: “坎頓 (北卡羅來納州)”
- Chinese: “坎頓”
- Chinese: “坎顿”
- Dutch: “Canton”
- French: “Canton”
- German: “Canton”
- Gilaki: “کنتن (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “کنتن”
- Haitian: “Canton, Kawolin dinò”
- Hungarian: “Canton”
- Italian: “Canton”
- Ladin: “Canton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Canton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canton”
- Norwegian: “Canton”
- Persian: “کانتون”
- Persian: “کنتن”
- Polish: “Canton”
- Portuguese: “Canton”
- Romanian: “Canton, Carolina de Nord”
- Romanian: “Canton, North Carolina”
- Romanian: “Canton”
- Russian: “Кантон”
- Serbian: “Кантон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canton, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانتون، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Canton (Carolina del Norte)”
- Spanish: “Canton”
- Tatar: “Кантон”
- Ukrainian: “Кантон”
- Urdu: “کینٹن، شمالی کیرولائنا”
- Urdu: “کینٹن”
- Uzbek: “Canton, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Canton”
- Uzbek: “Cантон”
- Volapük: “Canton, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Canton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Canton Area Historical Museum and Canton First Baptist Church.
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