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Wilson Township

Wilson

Wilson is a city in that is home to a diverse collection of historic homes in its center city along beautiful tree-lined streets. Some say it has North Carolina's finest collection of bungalows.
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  • Type: City with 49,200 residents
  • Description: city and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Hickory Grove”, “Tosnot Depot”, “Wilson, N.C.”, “Wilson, NC”, and “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Postal codes: 27893-27896

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wilson station and Imagination Station Science Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Bruce Tuten, CC BY 2.0.
G.K. Butterfield Train Station, also known as , is an Amtrak train station in Wilson, , United States. It is located in downtown Wilson and is part of the Wilson Central Business–Tobacco Warehouse Historic District.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Imagination Station Science & History Museum is an interactive located in downtown Wilson, North Carolina at 224 Nash Street SE. It is housed in the former Wilson Federal Building which served as a post office with a federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina from its construction in 1928.

Historic building
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Davis-Whitehead-Harriss House is a historic home located at Wilson, . It was built in 1858, and renovated in 1872 in the Italianate style.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montclair.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It lies at an elevation of 108 feet.

Wilson

Latitude
35.7242° or 35° 43′ 27″ north
Longitude
-77.9115° or 77° 54′ 42″ west
Population
49,200
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WSO
Open location code
8774P3FQ+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158657659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4499389
Wiki­data ID
Q595348
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wilson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويلسون”
  • Basque: “Wilson”
  • Catalan: “Wilson”
  • Cebuano: “Wilson”
  • Chechen: “Вилсон”
  • Chinese: “Wilson”
  • Chinese: “威爾森”
  • Chinese: “威爾遜”
  • Czech: “Wilson”
  • Dagbani: “Wilson”
  • Danish: “Wilson”
  • Dutch: “Wilson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلسون”
  • Esperanto: “Wilson”
  • Finnish: “Wilson”
  • French: “Wilson”
  • German: “Wilson”
  • Gilaki: “ويلسن”
  • Haitian: “Wilson, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hindi: “विल्सन”
  • Hungarian: “Wilson”
  • Irish: “Wilson”
  • Italian: “Wilson”
  • Japanese: “ウィルソン”
  • Korean: “윌슨”
  • Ladin: “Wilson”
  • Latvian: “Vilsona”
  • Malagasy: “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Wilson”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wilson”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilson”
  • Norwegian: “Wilson”
  • Persian: “ویلسن، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “ویلسن”
  • Polish: “Wilson”
  • Portuguese: “Wilson”
  • Romanian: “Wilson, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Wilson”
  • Russian: “Уилсон”
  • Serbian: “Вилсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilson”
  • Slovak: “Wilson”
  • Slovenian: “Wilson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلسن، قوزئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Wilson, Carolina del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Wilson”
  • Swedish: “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Wilson”
  • Tatar: “Вилсон (Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Вилсон”
  • Turkish: “Wilson, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Wilson”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілсон”
  • Urdu: “ولسن، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Wilson”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilson, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilson”
  • Volapük: “Wilson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilson, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilson”
  • Welsh: “Wilson, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Wilson”
  • “Wilson”

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