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Watauga County
Blowing Rock Township

Blowing Rock

Blowing Rock is a town in and counties in the U.S. state of . The population was 1,376 at the 2020 census. The Caldwell County portion of Blowing Rock is part of the –– Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Watauga County portion is part of the Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • Type: Town with 1,260 residents
  • Description: town in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Blowing Rock, NC” and “Blowing Rock, North Carolina”
  • Postal code: 28605

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moses H. Cone Memorial Park and Green Park Inn.

Museum
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The is a country estate in honor of Moses H. Cone in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. It is on the between mileposts 292 and 295 with access at milepost 294.

Hotel
Photo: G Keith Hall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The was a historic hotel located on the Eastern Continental Divide in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. The hotel was built in the 1880s and operated continuously until May 24, 2009, reopening after change of ownership and renovation on October 29, 2010.

Blowing Rock

Latitude
36.135° or 36° 8′ 6″ north
Longitude
-81.6778° or 81° 40′ 40″ west
Population
1,260
Elevation
3,573 feet (1,089 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BWK
Open location code
868W48PC+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153988008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4456376
Wiki­data ID
Q2023662
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Blowing Rock” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلووينغ روك”
  • Basque: “Blowing Rock”
  • Catalan: “Blowing Rock”
  • Cebuano: “Blowing Rock”
  • Chechen: “Блоуинг-Рок”
  • Chinese: “Blowing Rock”
  • Chinese: “布洛英羅克 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “布洛英羅克”
  • Dutch: “Blowing Rock”
  • French: “Blowing Rock”
  • German: “Blowing Rock”
  • Gilaki: “بلؤئینگ راک (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “بلؤئینگ راک”
  • Greek: “Μπλόουινγκ Ροκ”
  • Haitian: “Blowing Rock, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “בלואווינג רוק”
  • Hungarian: “Blowing Rock”
  • Italian: “Blowing Rock”
  • Japanese: “ブローイング・ロック”
  • Japanese: “ブローウィング・ロック”
  • Ladin: “Blowing Rock”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blowing Rock”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blowing Rock”
  • Persian: “بلووینگ راک، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “بلووینگ راک”
  • Polish: “Blowing Rock”
  • Portuguese: “Blowing Rock”
  • Russian: “Блоуинг-Рок”
  • Serbian: “Блоуинг Рок”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blowing Rock, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blowing Rock”
  • Silesian: “Blowing Rock (Půłnocno Karolina)”
  • Silesian: “Blowing Rock”
  • Spanish: “Blowing Rock”
  • Swedish: “Blowing Rock, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Blowing Rock”
  • Tatar: “Блоуинг-Рок”
  • Ukrainian: “Блоуїнг-Рок”
  • Uzbek: “Blowing Rock, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Blowing Rock”
  • Uzbek: “Блоwинг Роcк”
  • Volapük: “Blowing Rock, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Blowing Rock”

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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 “Blowing Rock”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.