Sparta
Sparta is a town and the county seat of Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 1,834.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,730 residents
- Description: town in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Also known as: “Bowers Store”, “Gap”, “Sparta, NC”, and “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Postal code: 28675
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alleghany County Courthouse.
Alleghany County Courthouse
Public building
Photo: G Keith Hall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alleghany County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina. It was built in 1933, and is a two-story, H-shaped Classical Revival-style brick building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twin Oaks and Glade Valley.
Twin Oaks
Hamlet
Twin Oaks is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located at the intersection of US 21 and US 221, 3 miles northwest of Sparta. Twin Oaks is situated 3 miles northwest of Sparta.
Glade Valley
Hamlet
Glade Valley is an unincorporated community located in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States along U.S. Highway 21 between Cherry Lane and Sparta. Glade Valley is situated 4½ miles southeast of Sparta.
Sparta
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Gap Civil Township, Alleghany, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.50547° or 36° 30′ 20″ northLongitude
-81.12076° or 81° 7′ 15″ westPopulation
1,730Elevation
2,930 feet (893 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ZSROpen location code
868WGV4H+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 153915618OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Sparta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سبارتا، كارولاينا الشماليه”
- Arabic: “سبارتا”
- Basque: “Sparta”
- Catalan: “Sparta”
- Cebuano: “Sparta (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)”
- Cebuano: “Sparta”
- Chechen: “Спарта”
- Chinese: “Sparta”
- Chinese: “斯巴达”
- Chinese: “斯巴達”
- Dutch: “Sparta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سبارتا, كارولاينا الشماليه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سبارتا”
- Esperanto: “Sparta”
- French: “Sparta”
- German: “Sparta”
- Gilaki: “اسپارتا (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “اسپارتا”
- Greek: “Σπάρτα”
- Haitian: “Sparta, Kawolin dinò”
- Hungarian: “Sparta”
- Irish: “Sparta, Carolina Thuaidh”
- Irish: “Sparta”
- Italian: “Sparta”
- Japanese: “スパータ”
- Japanese: “スパルタ”
- Ladin: “Sparta”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sparta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sparta”
- Norwegian: “Sparta”
- Persian: “اسپارتا، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “اسپارتا”
- Polish: “Sparta”
- Portuguese: “Sparta”
- Romanian: “Sparta, Carolina de Nord”
- Romanian: “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Romanian: “Sparta”
- Russian: “Спарта (Северная Каролина)”
- Russian: “Спарта”
- Serbian: “Спарта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sparta”
- Slovenian: “Sparta”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایسپارتا، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Sparta (Carolina del Norte)”
- Spanish: “Sparta”
- Swedish: “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Swedish: “Sparta”
- Tatar: “Спарта”
- Ukrainian: “Спарта”
- Uzbek: “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Sparta”
- Uzbek: “Спарта”
- Volapük: “Sparta, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Sparta”
- “Sparta”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Alleghany Historical Museum and Allaghany County Community Center.
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