Lenoir, North Carolina

Lenoir, North Carolina Main Street in downtown Lenoir Main Street in downtown Lenoir Confederate memorial in the Lenoir town square Location of Lenoir, North Carolina Location of Lenoir, North Carolina State North Carolina Governing body Lenoir City Council Lenoir is a town/city in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States.

The populace was 18,228 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Caldwell County. Lenoir is positioned in the Blue Ridge foothills.

Hibriten Mountain, positioned just east of the town/city limits, marks the end of the Brushy Mountains range.

Lenoir is one of the principal metros/cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The town/city was titled for Revolutionary War general and early North Carolina statesman William Lenoir, who settled north of present-day Lenoir.

Fort Defiance, home of William Lenoir In addition to Fort Defiance, the Caldwell County Courthouse, Lenoir Downtown Historic District, Lenoir Grammar School, Lenoir High School, Mary's Grove, and Edgar Allan Poe House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Lenoir was one of the recipients of the 2008 All-America City Award. The Broyhill Furniture company, one of the biggest furniture companies in the United States and part of Heritage Home Group (KPS Capital Partners), recently closed its command posts in Lenoir.

The Bernhardt, Kincaid, and Fairfield furniture companies are also positioned in or around Lenoir.

However, in the 1990s, these companies began changing their company models to reflect consumer trends, and they have closed a several of Lenoir's furniture factories.

Recent consolidations of region furniture facilities (Thomasville, Taylorsville, North Wilkesboro, etc.) have netted modest gains in positions in the trade around Lenoir.

Has a server farm, or "data center", positioned in Lenoir. There was controversy over the nature, amount, and potential benefits of economic evolution incentives that the City of Lenoir, Caldwell County, and the State of North Carolina gave Google in 2007 to induce the business to build the server farm. The less jubilated benefits of the investment have been assembly employment and spending, a small-time server farm investment just outside downtown, Dacentec, as well as small-town charitable and educational endeavors by Google.

Lenoir is positioned southeast of the center of Caldwell County at 35 54 30 N 81 31 48 W (35.908438, -81.530012). It is bordered to the south by the suburbs of Hudson and Cajah's Mountain, and to the southwest by the town of Gamewell.

View of Lenoir from Hibriten Mountain US 64 leads east 42 miles (68 km) to Statesville and southwest 15 miles (24 km) to Morganton, while US 321 leads north 27 miles (43 km) to Boone and southeast 17 miles (27 km) to Hickory.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.7 square miles (50.9 km2), all land. The town/city is in the valley of Lower Creek, between the Brushy Mountains to the east and the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.

Climate data for Lenoir, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals), In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.9% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older.

Lenoir Pre-School Inc West Lenoir Elementary School William Lenoir Middle School West Caldwell High School Caldwell Early College High School South Caldwell High School Lenoir Youth Soccer Association / Lenoir Force (LYSA Force), a travel soccer team in Lenoir Lenoir Rotary Soccer Complex Aquatic and Fitness Center is positioned on 118 acres of land, and it's made for the people of Lenoir to participate and appreciate health, fitness, and leisure activities.

The 18-hole Lenoir Golf Club in Lenoir features 6,385 yards of golf, with a course rating of 71.3 and a slope rating of 125, on Bermuda grass.

Hibriten Mountain shows a wonderful view of Lenoir and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Presbyterian Layman, a printed announcement of the Presbyterian Lay Committee autonomous of the denomination, is presented in Lenoir.

Confederate memorial in the Lenoir town square Leonard Bolick, bishop of the ELCA North Carolina Synod (born in Lenoir) Broyhill, heir to the Broyhill family fortune; United States congressman from North Carolina from 1962 to 1986 and a United States senator from July 1986 to November 1986 Jan Karon, New York Times-bestselling author of the Mitford Series and the Father Tim novels (born in Lenoir) Newland, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina (1909-13) Louis Round Wilson, University Librarian and first director of the library school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1901-1932 Five Major League Baseball players were born or have been inhabitants in Lenoir: Johnny Allen (born 1904), Lindsay Deal (born 1911), Charlie Cozart (born 1919), Rube Walker (born 1926), and Madison Bumgarner (born 1989).

City of Lenoir NC.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lenoir city, North Carolina".

"National Register of Historic Places Listings".

Featured Property: Lenoir Downtown Historic District.

"Lenoir, North Carolina Data Centers Google".

"The Economic Impact of A Data Center - Data Center Knowledge".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Caldwell County Youth Football League".

Lenoir Golf Club Homepage Retrieved 2015-07-05 City of Lenoir official website NC Spin: Lenoir, Carolina Community Our State magazine-Tarheel Town: Lenoir Municipalities and communities of Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina

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