Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine is the largest town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,194 at the 2020 census. It is one of the only places in the world where high-purity quartz can be found.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kubigula, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,980 residents
- Description: town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Also known as: “Spruce Pine, NC” and “Spruce Pine, North Carolina”
- Postal code: 28777
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Switzerland.
Little Switzerland
Hamlet
Photo: Kubigula, Public domain.
Little Switzerland is an unincorporated community in McDowell and Mitchell counties of North Carolina, United States. It is located along North Carolina Highway 226A off the Blue Ridge Parkway, directly north of Marion and south of Spruce Pine. Little Switzerland is situated 4½ miles south of Spruce Pine.
Spruce Pine
- Categories: town in the United States, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Township of Grassy Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.91478° or 35° 54′ 53″ northLongitude
-82.06641° or 82° 3′ 59″ westPopulation
1,980Elevation
2,559 feet (780 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SPUOpen location code
867VWW7M+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 154333278OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Spruce Pine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سبروس بين”
- Basque: “Spruce Pine”
- Catalan: “Spruce Pine”
- Cebuano: “Spruce Pine”
- Chechen: “Спрус-Пайн”
- Chinese: “Spruce Pine”
- Chinese: “斯普魯斯派恩”
- Chinese: “斯普鲁斯派恩”
- Dutch: “Spruce Pine”
- French: “Spruce Pine”
- German: “Spruce Pine”
- Gilaki: “اسپروس پاین (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “اسپروس پاین”
- Haitian: “Spruce Pine, Kawolin dinò”
- Hebrew: “ספרוס פיין”
- Hungarian: “Spruce Pine”
- Italian: “Spruce Pine”
- Ladin: “Spruce Pine”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Spruce Pine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spruce Pine”
- Norwegian: “Spruce Pine”
- Persian: “اسپروس پاین، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “اسپروس پاین”
- Polish: “Spruce Pine”
- Portuguese: “Spruce Pine”
- Serbian: “Спрус Пајн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Spruce Pine, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Spruce Pine”
- Spanish: “Spruce Pine”
- Tatar: “Спрус-Пайн”
- Ukrainian: “Спрус-Пайн”
- Uzbek: “Spruce Pine, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Spruce Pine”
- Uzbek: “Спруcе Пине”
- Volapük: “Spruce Pine, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Spruce Pine”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Spruce Pine”. Photo: Kubigula, Public domain.