Fairplains
Fairplains is a census-designated place in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,029 at the 2020 census. The community was named "fairplains" because it was located at the geographic point where the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains begin to level off to the gently rolling Piedmont region of central North Carolina.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 2,120 residents
- Description: township in Wilkes County, North Carolina
- Also known as: “Fairplain”, “Fairplains, NC”, and “Fairplains, North Carolina”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Wilkesboro and Mulberry.
North Wilkesboro
Town
North Wilkesboro is a town in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,131 at the 2020 US Census. North Wilkesboro is the birthplace and original home of Lowe's Home Improvement, which continues to have a major presence in the community. North Wilkesboro is situated 3 miles south of Fairplains.
Mulberry
Hamlet
Mulberry is a census-designated place in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,332 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The community was given its name by the first European pioneers to settle the area in the 1750s. Mulberry is situated 3 miles northwest of Fairplains.
Wilkesboro
Town
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Wilkesboro is a town in and the county seat of Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,687 at the 2020 census. The town is located along the south bank of the Yadkin River, directly opposite the town of North Wilkesboro. Wilkesboro is situated 3½ miles south of Fairplains.
Fairplains
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: North Wilkesboro Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.19826° or 36° 11′ 54″ northLongitude
-81.15302° or 81° 9′ 11″ westPopulation
2,120Elevation
1,283 feet (391 metres)Open location code
868W5RXW+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 153834024OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4465700Wikidata ID
Q1918030
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fairplains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فايربلاينس”
- Basque: “Fairplains”
- Bulgarian: “Фаирплаинс”
- Catalan: “Fairplains”
- Cebuano: “Fairplains”
- Chechen: “Фейрплейнс”
- Chinese: “Fairplains”
- Chinese: “費爾普萊恩斯 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “費爾普萊恩斯”
- Dutch: “Fairplains”
- French: “Fairplains”
- German: “Fairplains”
- Gilaki: “فیرپلینز (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “فیرپلینز”
- Irish: “Fairplains”
- Italian: “Fairplains”
- Ladin: “Fairplains”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fairplains”
- Persian: “فایرپلاینس، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “فایرپلاینس”
- Persian: “فرپلینز”
- Polish: “Fairplains”
- Portuguese: “Fairplains”
- Serbian: “Ферплејнс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fairplains, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fairplains”
- Spanish: “Fairplains”
- Tatar: “Фейрплейнс”
- Ukrainian: “Фейрплейнс”
- Urdu: “فیئرپلینز، شمالی کیرولائنا”
- Uzbek: “Fairplains”
- Volapük: “Fairplains”
- Welsh: “Fairplains, Gogledd Carolina”
- Welsh: “Fairplains”
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