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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 ]
Gap Civil Township is one of seven townships in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The township had a population of 4,474 according to the 2010 census. [1] Gap Civil Township occupies 48.8 square miles (126.4 km 2) in central Alleghany County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.4 km 2), of which 6.2 square miles (16.2 km 2) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.2 km 2) (1.10%) is water. Elkin is approximately 15 minutes south of Stone Mountain State Park , and 20 minutes from the entrance of the Blue Ridge Parkway off Hwy 21 ...
North Carolina is a state located in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States census , North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2 ) of land.
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The major rivers of Alleghany County are the New River, [18] and the Little River; the latter flows through the town of Sparta, the county seat. Isolated by mountainous terrain from the remainder of North Carolina to the east, Alleghany County was described in the 19th and early 20th centuries as one of the Lost Provinces of North Carolina. [19]
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the economy of eastern North Carolina was adversely affected. In the Reconstruction era, freedmen gained political power and, as a result, three blacks were elected to the North Carolina General Assembly between 1868 and 1872 and blacks held significant influence in local government. [10]
Dansville is a village in the town of North Dansville, with a small northern part in the town of Sparta in Livingston County, in western New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 4,433. [2] The village is named after Daniel Faulkner, an early European-American settler. [3]