Flat Rock
Flat Rock is a census-designated place in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. The name "Flat Rock" stems from the community's granite quarry. The granite quarry is the largest open-face granite quarry in the world, and has been mined continuously since 1889 by the North Carolina Granite Corporation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 1,560 residents
- Description: township in Surry County, North Carolina
- Also known as: “Flat Rock, NC”, “Flat Rock, Surry County, North Carolina”, and “Flatrock”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Airy.
Mount Airy
Photo: G Keith Hall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Airy is in North Carolina, famous as the home of actor Andy Griffith and the inspiration for the town of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show.
Flat Rock
Latitude
36.51236° or 36° 30′ 45″ northLongitude
-80.56979° or 80° 34′ 11″ westPopulation
1,560Elevation
1,145 feet (349 metres)Open location code
868XGC6J+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 154400265OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4466446Wikidata ID
Q3459949
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Flat Rock” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Flat Rock”
- Albanian: “Flat Rock”
- Aragonese: “Flat Rock”
- Asturian: “Flat Rock”
- Basque: “Flat Rock”
- Bavarian: “Flat Rock”
- Belarusian: “Флэт Рок”
- Belarusian: “Флэт-Рок”
- Bosnian: “Flat Rock”
- Breton: “Flat Rock”
- Catalan: “Flat Rock”
- Cebuano: “Flat Rock”
- Chechen: “Флет-Рок (Сарри гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
- Chechen: “Флет-Рок”
- Chinese: “弗拉特羅克 (北卡羅萊納州薩里縣)”
- Chinese: “弗拉特羅克”
- Corsican: “Flat Rock”
- Croatian: “Flat Rock”
- Czech: “Flat Rock”
- Danish: “Flat Rock”
- Dutch: “Flat Rock”
- Esperanto: “Flat Rock”
- Estonian: “Flat Rock”
- Finnish: “Flat Rock”
- French: “Flat Rock”
- Friulian: “Flat Rock”
- Galician: “Flat Rock”
- Georgian: “ფლეტ-როკი”
- German: “Flat Rock”
- Hebrew: “פלאט רוק”
- Hungarian: “Flat Rock”
- Icelandic: “Flat Rock”
- Irish: “Flat Rock”
- Italian: “Flat Rock”
- Ladin: “Flat Rock”
- Ligurian: “Flat Rock”
- Limburgan: “Flat Rock”
- Lithuanian: “Flat Rock”
- Lombard: “Flat Rock”
- Low German: “Flat Rock”
- Luxembourgish: “Flat Rock”
- Neapolitan: “Flat Rock”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flat Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flat Rock”
- Persian: “فلت راک، سوری کانتی، کارولینا شمالی”
- Persian: “فلت راک، شهرستان سری، کارولینای شمالی”
- Picard: “Flat Rock”
- Piemontese: “Flat Rock”
- Polish: “Flat Rock”
- Portuguese: “Flat Rock”
- Romanian: “Flat Rock”
- Romansh: “Flat Rock”
- Sardinian: “Flat Rock”
- Scots: “Flat Rock”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Flat Rock”
- Serbian: “Флат Рок (округ Сари, Северна Каролина)”
- Serbian: “Флат Рок”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Flat Rock, Surry County, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Flat Rock”
- Sicilian: “Flat Rock”
- Slovak: “Flat Rock”
- Slovenian: “Flat Rock”
- Spanish: “Flat Rock, Condado de Surry”
- Spanish: “Flat Rock”
- Swedish: “Flat Rock, Surry County, North Carolina”
- Swedish: “Flat Rock”
- Swiss German: “Flat Rock”
- Tatar: “Флет-Рок (Сарри округы, Төньяк Каролина)”
- Tatar: “Флет-Рок”
- Turkish: “Flat Rock”
- Ukrainian: “Флет-Рок”
- Venetian: “Flat Rock”
- Vietnamese: “Flat Rock”
- Vlaams: “Flat Rock”
- Volapük: “Flat Rock”
- Walloon: “Flat Rock”
- Welsh: “Flat Rock”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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