Garner, North Carolina Town of Garner, North Carolina Location in Wake County and the state of North Carolina.
Location in Wake County and the state of North Carolina.
Garner is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States and a suburb of Raleigh.
The populace was estimated to be 27,814 as of July 1, 2014. The US Office of Management and Budget includes Garner as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, which had a populace of 1,998,808 as of U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 14.8 square miles (38.3 km2), of which 14.7 square miles (38.2 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.34%, is water. Garner is positioned entirely inside Wake County. There are unincorporated areas of Wake County and Johnston County that have Garner postal addresses, including a portion of the unincorporated, but densely populated, Cleveland Community.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Land near the town of Garner was first settled around 1751; it became the village of Garner's Station and received a postal service in 1878, but the improve had its charter repealed in 1891.
In 1905, the charter was reinstated as the Town of Garner.
The town lay along US 70, the first paved highway to be assembled in North Carolina. Garner presently operates under a council manager government whereby the Town Council is the publicly propel legislative body of the town, and appoints a Town Manager to manage the administrative operations of the town.
The Town Council consists of the Mayor and five Town Council Members, one of whom serves as Mayor "Pro Tempore." According to Garner's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town were: 1 Wake County Public School System 800 Several primary roads and highways serve Garner: Interstate 40 passes by the north and east sides of Garner.
70 serves as the chief east-west highway through Garner.
70 at the town's northwestern corner and runs to the west of the town.
50 enters the town with U.S.
70 at Benson Road, serving as a primary north-south arterial through Garner, and alongsideing I-40 into Johnston County.
Although outside of the town limits proper, it serves many addresses in unincorporated parts of Wake and Johnston counties with Garner addresses.
Timber Drive is an extension of Hammond Road that serves as a primary arterial to connect residentiary areas of Garner with U.S.
Garner Road is a former alignment of U.S.
Garner is served by the Triangle Transit bus route 102.
The following schools serve students in and around Garner.
Most, but not all, are positioned inside the town limits of Garner.
With several exceptions, school districts in North Carolina are organized at the county level, and students are often assigned to schools without regard to which municipality they live in.
East Garner Elementary School East Garner Middle School North Garner Middle School Garner Magnet High School Donnie Harrison, Sheriff of Wake County, North Carolina "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
"Population Estimates 2012 Combined Statistical Areas: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Garner town, North Carolina".
"Garner Corporate Limits as of August, 2008" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Town of Garner website, Town History "Bodies removed from Garner plant rubble".
"Town of Garner Comprehensive Annual Financial Report".
Town of Garner.
Wake County Public School System Schools in Johnston County Schools.
Town of Garner official website Municipalities and communities of Wake County, North Carolina, United States
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