Elkin
Elkin is a town in Surry and Wilkes counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina, along the Yadkin River. Elkin shares its name with the surrounding township of Elkin Township. The population was 4,122 at the time of the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,120 residents
- Description: town in Surry and Wilkes counties in North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Elkin, NC” and “Elkin, North Carolina”
- Postal code: 28621
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jonesville and Ronda.
Jonesville
Town
Jonesville, originally called Allen's Settlement, founded in 1811 under the name of Martinsborough, is the oldest town in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.
Ronda
Village
Ronda is a town in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 417 at the 2010 census, and 413 at the 2020 census. Ronda was named after a nearby estate called "Roundabout", which was the residence of Benjamin Cleveland, a locally prominent planter and a colonel in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War. Ronda is situated 5 miles west of Elkin.
Elkin
- Categories: town in the United States, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Elkin Township, Surry, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.24405° or 36° 14′ 39″ northLongitude
-80.8508° or 80° 51′ 3″ westPopulation
4,120Elevation
896 feet (273 metres)United Nations Location Code
US EINOpen location code
868X64VX+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 154010883OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Elkin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألكين”
- Basque: “Elkin”
- Catalan: “Elkin”
- Cebuano: “Elkin”
- Chechen: “Элкин”
- Chinese: “Elkin”
- Chinese: “埃爾金 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “埃爾金”
- Dutch: “Elkin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكين”
- French: “Elkin”
- German: “Elkin”
- Gilaki: “الکین (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “الکین”
- Haitian: “Elkin, Kawolin dinò”
- Hungarian: “Elkin”
- Italian: “Elkin”
- Japanese: “エルキン”
- Korean: “엘킨”
- Ladin: “Elkin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Elkin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elkin”
- Norwegian: “Elkin”
- Persian: “الکین، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “الکین”
- Polish: “Elkin”
- Portuguese: “Elkin”
- Serbian: “Елкин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elkin, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elkin”
- South Azerbaijani: “الکین، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Elkin”
- Tatar: “Элкин”
- Ukrainian: “Елкін”
- Uzbek: “Elkin, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Elkin”
- Uzbek: “Елкин”
- Volapük: “Elkin, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Elkin”
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