Hickory, North Carolina Hickory, North Carolina City of Hickory Union Square, downtown Hickory Union Square, downtown Hickory state of North Carolina Hickory is a town/city located primarily in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States, with parts in adjoining Burke and Caldwell counties.
The city's populace at the 2010 census was 40,010, with an estimated populace in 2013 of 40,361. Hickory is the principal town/city in the Hickory Lenoir Morganton MSA, in which the populace at the 2010 census was 365,497 and is also encompassed as part of the Charlotte Concord Combined Statistical Area.
2 City services 12 Lake Hickory In the 1850s, under a huge hickory tree, Henry Robinson assembled a tavern of logs. The town/city of "Hickory Tavern" co-founded by "Dolph" Shuford, was established in 1863, and the name was eventually changed to the town/city of Hickory in 1873. The first train directed in the town/city of "Hickory Tavern" in 1859.
His home is now known as "The 1859 Cafe," a restaurant (closed in 2011). The improve of Hickory was the first for many things in North Carolina, including the council-manager form of government it adopted in 1913.
Hickory was also one of the first suburbs to install electric lights in 1888 and a complete sewage fitness in 1904. Jeremiah Ingold, pastor of the German Reformed Grace Charge, established Hickory's first school, the Free Academy. Hickory is home to one of the earliest furniture manufacturers in the United States that is still positioned and directed on the initial site.
Hickory White, formerly known as Hickory Manufacturing Company, was assembled in 1902 and has been in continuous operation ever since.
Hickory was known in the years after World War II for the "Miracle of Hickory".
In 1944 the region around Hickory (the Catawba Valley) became the center of one of the worst outbreaks of polio ever recorded.
Since small-town facilities were inadequate to treat the victims, the people of Hickory and the March of Dimes decided to build a hospital to care for the kids of the region.
Frye House, Clement Geitner House, Lee & Helen George House, Harris Arcade, Hickory Municipal Building, Hickory Southwest Downtown Historic District, Highland School, Hollar Hosiery Mills-Knit Sox Knitting Mills, Houck's Chapel, Kenworth Historic District, John A.
Lentz House, Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill, John Alfred Moretz House, Oakwood Historic District, Piedmont Wagon Company, Propst House, Ridgeview Public Library, Shuford House, Weidner Rock House, Whisnant Hosiery Mills, and Yoder's Mills Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Hickory Fire Department provides fire suppression, emergency medical services, enhance education, hazardous materials (HAZMAT) operations, and fire prevention and inspection with 137 full-time personnel.
Seven fire stations are strategically positioned throughout Hickory to furnish a reasonable response time to emergencies. The Hickory Police Department is a full-service municipal police agency with 152 full-time officers.
The Hickory Public Works Department provides water, street construction, traffic, maintenance and repair, stormwater management, solid waste and recycling, water treatment, parks and recreation, engineering and fleet maintenance services to the inhabitants of Hickory. Catawba County EMS provides Advanced Life Support transport services throughout Catawba County, including in the City of Hickory.
Ambulances stationed at the Hickory, St.
Stephens, and Mountain View bases are responsible for covering the city. To reduce wait time for services, the Hickory Fire Department will respond and furnish Basic Life Support, until the arrival of an ambulance.
The Hickory Rescue Squad can furnish transport services, if Catawba County units are unavailable.
The county's airport is the Hickory Regional Airport.
Greenway Transportation serves Hickory, as well as Conover and Newton.
Hickory is home to the Hickory Crawdads, an partner of baseball's Texas Rangers, in the Class-A South Atlantic League.
Hickory is home to the Hickory Motor Speedway, nationally known as the Birthplace of the NASCAR Stars.
Hickory is positioned in Catawba County at 35 44 16 N 81 19 42 W (35.737682, 81.328372), and extends westward into Burke County and Caldwell County.
Interstate 40 passes through the southern part of the city, dominant east 68 miles (109 km) to Winston-Salem and west 75 miles (121 km) to Asheville.
Route 321 passes through the part of the city, dominant northwest 43 miles (69 km) to Boone and south 36 miles (58 km) to Gastonia.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.8 square miles (77.2 km2), of which 29.7 square miles (76.9 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.31%, is water. Climate data for Hickory, North Carolina (Hickory Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) .8 .7 .1 .1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .2 1.9 Hickory is the biggest city inside the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area).
The MSA includes Catawba County, Burke County, Caldwell County, and Alexander County, with a combined populace as of the 2010 Enumeration of 365,497. Apart from Hickory, the MSA includes Lenoir, Morganton, Conover, and Newton, along with a number of lesser incorporated towns: Sawmills, Granite Falls, Valdese, Long View, Gamewell, Hudson, Maiden, Cajah's Mountain, Hildebran, and Taylorsville.
Several sizeable unincorporated non-urban and suburban communities are also positioned nearby: Drexel, Connelly Springs, Glen Alpine, Claremont, Rutherford College, Catawba, Cedar Rock, North Carolina, and Brookford.
The Hickory region historically competed in new industries and technologies by applying old strengths and favorable geography to new opportunities.
The furniture trade in Hickory is not as strong as in the decades previous, but still a major component in the region economy, and includes HSM (formerly Hickory Springs, established 1944), a dominant manufacturer of mattress coils.
Currently the region is home to many dominant manufacturers of furniture, fiber optic cable, and pressure-sensitive tape. It is estimated 60% of the nation's furniture used to be produced inside a 200-mile (320 km) radius of Hickory.
Forty percent of the world's fiber optic cable is made in the Hickory area. The Hickory region is extraly marketed as a data-center corridor and is home to large data-centers directed by Apple and Google.
Apple's billion-dollar data-center ground just south of Hickory is one of the world's largest. Hickory is the retail core of the foothills and Unifour region, and is home to the biggest shopping mall in the region Valley Hills Mall.
Hickory is home to the corporate command posts of third-party logistics provider Transportation Insight, a member of North Carolina's top revenue tier of privately held businesses.
In 2015, the business relocated its command posts to the historic Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill in downtown Hickory.
Hickory has been titled an "All-America City" three times.
The All-America City Award is given annually to ten metros/cities in the United States.
Hickory won this award in 2007, as well as, 1967 and 1987.
The Hickory metro region has been titled the 10th best place to live and raise a family in the United States by Reader's Digest and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton MSA has been titled the third best MSA in the nation for company cost by Forbes. In 2014, Smart Growth America identified the Hickory MSA as being country's most widespread metro area. Hickory High School Hickory Career and Arts Magnet High School Hickory Christian Academy Hickory Day School Appalachian Center at Hickory In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
364,759 citizens live inside 25 miles (40 km) of Hickory; 1.8 million citizens inside 50 miles (80 km) of Hickory. Lake Hickory was created on the Catawba River in 1927 with the culmination of the Oxford Dam 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Hickory.
Lake Hickory was titled after the town/city of Hickory and runs along its northern edge.
Lake Hickory is a reliable origin of water for the metros/cities of Hickory and Conover and the town of Longview.
Duke Energy provides five enhance access areas on the lake in cooperation with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
The Hickory Daily Record is presented 7 days a week.
The following notable citizens are or have been inhabitants of the Hickory area: Downs, lawyer in Hickory and Franklin, North Carolina; senior resident superior court judge, 1983-2013 a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hickory city, North Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 (PEPANNRES)".
Hickory Daily Record, June 30, 1944 National Park Service (2010-07-09).
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"Airport | City of Hickory, North Carolina".
Hickory's Regional Role As Leader from hickorygov.com City of Hickory, North Carolina.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Hickory Hickory travel guide from Wikivoyage Hickory Public Schools Municipalities and communities of Burke County, North Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Catawba County, North Carolina, United States
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