North Carolina
Rutherford County
Chimney Rock Township

Lake Lure

Lake Lure is a town in , , United States. In 2020 the town population was 1,365. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965.
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  • Type: Village with 1,020 residents
  • Description: town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Lake Lure Village”, “Lake Lure, NC”, and “Lake Lure, North Carolina”
  • Postal code: 28746

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chimney Rock and Bat Cave.

Village
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is a village in , , United States. The population was 140 at the 2020 census. The village took its name from a large gneiss located on a summit above the village itself in State Park. is situated 2½ miles west of Lake Lure.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community in , United States and is part of the . Named after a located on , it is the largest known augen gneiss granite fissure cave in North America and is a protected area, not open to the public. is situated 5 miles west of Lake Lure.

Lake Lure

Latitude
35.4279° or 35° 25′ 40″ north
Longitude
-82.20483° or 82° 12′ 17″ west
Population
1,020
Elevation
1,106 feet (337 metres)
Open location code
867VCQHW+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153930745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4474803
Wiki­data ID
Q303620
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Lake Lure” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليك لوري”
  • Basque: “Lake Lure”
  • Catalan: “Lake Lure”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Lure”
  • Chechen: “Лейк-Люр”
  • Chinese: “Lake Lure”
  • Chinese: “萊克盧爾 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “萊克盧爾”
  • Dutch: “Lake Lure”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك لورى”
  • French: “Lake Lure”
  • German: “Lake Lure”
  • Gilaki: “لیک لور (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “لیک لور”
  • Haitian: “Lake Lure, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Buffalo”
  • Hungarian: “Lake Lure”
  • Italian: “Lake Lure”
  • Japanese: “レイク・ルーア”
  • Ladin: “Lake Lure”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Lure”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Lure”
  • Norwegian: “Lake Lure”
  • Persian: “لیک لور”
  • Polish: “Lake Lure”
  • Portuguese: “Lake Lure”
  • Serbian: “Лејк Луар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Lure, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Lure”
  • Spanish: “Lake Lure, Carolina del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Lake Lure”
  • Tatar: “Лейк-Люр”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк-Люр”
  • Urdu: “لیک لیوری، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Urdu: “لیک لیوری”
  • Uzbek: “Lake Lure”
  • Volapük: “Lake Lure”

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