Crutchfield, North Carolina
Unincorporated community in North Carolina, US
Crutchfield is an unincorporated community along the Yadkin River in the Marsh Township of Surry County, North Carolina, United States (Powell 1968, p. 129).
Overview
The community, situated across the Yadkin River just north of Boonville, was a stop on the former Southern Railway, now used by the Yadkin Valley Railroad.
The community is named for Charlie Crutchfield, a worker who died during the construction of a railroad trestle bridge in the area. Crutchfield, who had no relatives, was buried on the Yadkin County side of the river.[1]
References
- ^ "Yadkin County Heritage," Frances Harding Casstevens, editor, page 15.
- 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
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Municipalities and communities of Surry County, North Carolina, United States
County seat: Dobson
- Dobson
- Elkin‡
- Pilot Mountain
communities
- Albion
- Ararat
- Ash Hill
- Bannertown
- Blackwater
- Blevins Store
- Boones Hill
- Bottom
- Burch
- Cedar Hill
- Combstown
- Copeland
- Crooked Oak
- Crutchfield
- Devotion
- Fairview
- Franklin
- Hills Grove
- Holly Springs
- Indian Grove
- Jenkinstown
- Ladonia
- Level Cross
- Little Richmond
- Long Hill
- Mount Herman
- Mountain Park
- Mulberry
- New Hope
- Oak Grove
- Pine Hill
- Pine Ridge
- Poplar Springs
- Red Brush
- Rockford
- Round Peak
- Salem
- Salem Fork
- Sheltontown
- Shoals
- Siloam
- Slate Mountain
- State Road
- Stony Knoll
- Thurmond
- Turkey Ford
- Union Cross
- Union Hill
- Westfield‡
- White Sulphur Springs
- Woodville
- Zephyr
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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36°16′16″N 80°43′23″W / 36.271°N 80.723°W / 36.271; -80.723
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