Little Richmond, North Carolina

Little Richmond
Unincorporated community
Little Richmond Location within the state of North Carolina
Coordinates: 36°17′41″N 80°45′27″W
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Surry
Elevation	1,110 ft (340 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	28621 (Elkin)
Area code	336
GNIS feature ID	988748

Little Richmond is an unincorporated community located in the Marsh Township of Surry County, North Carolina.

Geography

The community is centered on the intersection of North Carolina Highway 268 and Joe Layne Mill Road. Near this intersection are the Little Richmond Baptist Church, founded in 1872, and Little Richmond Cemetery. Other landmarks in the community include Little Richmond Primitive Baptist Church, New Hope Pentecostal Holiness Church and a C.C. Camp Volunteer Fire Department Substation. Former landmarks that once stood in this vicinity include the Little Richmond School and a former United States post office called Rusk.

Generally, the community resides near the junction of Snow Creek and the Mitchell River and has an elevation of 1,110 feet (340 m) above sea level (Powell 1968, p. 291).

References

Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1

External links

• C.C. Camp VFD website