Casville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Caswell County, North Carolina Caswell County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 22,736. Its county seat is Yancey ...

, United States. It is located at the

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U.S. Route 158 U.S. Route 158 (US 158) is an east–west United States highway that runs for from Mocksville to Whalebone Junction in Nags Head, and is located entirely in the state of North Carolina. It is also a critical route that connects the ci ...

and Ashland Rd/Park Springs Rd. Travelers along US 158 notice a significant change in the

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from 55 mph (89 km/h) to 25 mph (40.2 km/h) as they approach the community's only caution

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; the speed limit returns to after leaving the crossroads area. Casville has two

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for those traveling along US 158 between

Yanceyville, North Carolina Yanceyville is a town in, and the county seat of, Caswell County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state, it had a population of 1,937 at the 2020 census. Established in 1791 as Caswell Court House, Yanc ...

and

Reidsville, North Carolina Reidsville is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. At the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 14,583. Reidsville is included in the Greensboro–High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Tr ...

. In the 2000s, it had a convenience store called the Casville Food Mart. It has a

volunteer fire department A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respo ...

. As of 1996, the Casville fire department was the only volunteer fire department in Caswell County to receive funding from a fire tax levied on residents within its service district. Neighboring communities include Pelham and Ruffin.

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