Shopton
Shopton is a neighborhood in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Shopton is situated nearby to the hamlet Olympic Woods, as well as near Steelberry Acres.Places of Interest
Highlights include Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and METALmorphosis.
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church
Church
Photo: Bagatar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
METALmorphosis
Fountain
METALmorphosis is a large kinetic sculpture of a human head, by Czech artist David Černý. The sculpture is in the Whitehall Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it was inaugurated in 2007, and it sits in a large reflecting pool. METALmorphosis is situated 1½ miles southeast of Shopton.
Olympic High School
School building
Olympic High School is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a high school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system. Olympic opened in the fall of 1966, in what was then the rural outskirts of Charlotte.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dixie and Steele Creek.
Dixie
Hamlet
Dixie is an unincorporated community in western Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. Centered at the intersection of Dixie River Road and Wallace Neel Road; the rural community has shrunk since the start of the 21st century with the expansion of Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the westward expansion of Charlotte. Dixie is situated 2 miles north of Shopton.
Steele Creek
Reid Park
Suburb
Reid Park is a historic African-American neighborhood on the west side of the U.S. city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of the oldest African-American neighborhoods the city. Reid Park is situated 4 miles northeast of Shopton.
Shopton
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.17175° or 35° 10′ 18″ northLongitude
-80.96113° or 80° 57′ 40″ westElevation
725 feet (221 metres)Open location code
867X52CQ+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 154174493OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4491545
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