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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. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Webcam views from Maggie Valley, Sugar Mountain, Waynesville, and Beech Mountain on Wednesday morning, Oct. 16, 2024 show freshly fallen snow in the mountains of North Carolina.
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It is the fifth-smallest county in North Carolina by total area. Alleghany County is located in northwestern North Carolina. [4] It borders the North Carolina counties of Surry, Wilkes, and Ashe, and the Virginia county of Grayson. [16] The county is located entirely within the Appalachian Mountains region of western North Carolina. Most of the ...
A state of emergency was declared in Sparta, [6] and North Carolina granted US$24 million ($28.3 million in 2023) in relief fund for repair works. [ 7 ] The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the eastern Appalachians which formed about 480 to 300 million years ago during subduction and subsequent continental collision with the African plate. [ 8 ]
Relief is slowly giving way to recovery in the Asheville and Western North Carolina area after Tropical Storm Helene left communities devastated.
Lake Louise, formerly known as Bullhead Lake, is a 54-acre reservoir in Roaring Gap, North Carolina. A man-made lake, it was formed between 1926 and 1927 in southeastern Alleghany County on the headwaters of Laurel Branch creek. Privately owned by the Roaring Gap Club, it was developed for residents and members for swimming, fishing, and boating.
Some parts of southeastern North Carolina received around 23 inches of rain as schools and public offices stayed closed on Tuesday.