North Carolina
Bladen
Hollow Township

Tar Heel

Tar Heel is a town located in , United States. The population was 90 at the 2020 census. Tar Heel is home to the largest pig processing plant in the world, which opened in 1992, operated by Smithfield Foods and is located just north of the town limits.
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  • Type: Village with 117 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Tar Heel, NC”, “Tar Heel, North Carolina”, and “Tarheel”
  • Postal code: 28392

Tar Heel

Latitude
34.73317° or 34° 43′ 59″ north
Longitude
-78.79041° or 78° 47′ 26″ west
Population
117
Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TQH
Open location code
8763P6M5+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158367840
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4494479
Wiki­data ID
Q2022369
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Tar Heel” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tar Heel”
  • Catalan: “Tar Heel”
  • Cebuano: “Tar Heel”
  • Chechen: “Тар-Гил”
  • Chinese: “Tar Heel”
  • Chinese: “塔爾希爾 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “塔爾希爾”
  • Dutch: “Tar Heel”
  • French: “Tar Heel”
  • German: “Tar Heel”
  • Gilaki: “تار هیل (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “تار هیل”
  • Haitian: “Tar Heel, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Tar Heel”
  • Italian: “Tar Heel”
  • Japanese: “ターヒール”
  • Ladin: “Tar Heel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tar Heel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tar Heel”
  • Norwegian: “Tar Heel”
  • Persian: “تار هیل”
  • Polish: “Tar Heel”
  • Portuguese: “Tar Heel”
  • Serbian: “Тар Хил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tar Heel, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tar Heel”
  • Slovenian: “Tar Heel”
  • Spanish: “Tar Heel”
  • Swedish: “Tar Heel, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Tar Heel”
  • Tatar: “Тар-Гил”
  • Ukrainian: “Тар-Гіл”
  • Uzbek: “Tar Heel, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Tar Heel”
  • Uzbek: “Тар Ҳеел”
  • Volapük: “Tar Heel, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Tar Heel”

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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 “Tar Heel”. Photo: Dincher, CC BY-SA 3.0.