Steeds is an
unincorporated community located in the northeastern part of
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
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,
North Carolina, United States.
Location
Steeds is located on
US 220 (Alt) two miles north of the
Community of Ether. The community is at the crossing of Hwy 220, State Road 1332 (Plantation Road) and State Road 1365 (Steed Road), with State Road 1361 (Bean Road) junctioning with Steed Road.
The community of Steeds lies four miles north of the
Town of Star and five miles south of the
Town of Seagrove. The
Community of Blackankle is three miles west of Steeds..
Steeds is approximately one mile west of
Moore County, three miles south of
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, eighteen miles north of
Richmond County, and eighteen miles east of
Stanly County
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.
The elevation of Steeds is 662 feet above sea level, and it lies at (35.47083, -79.77778).
Steeds is one mile north of
Interstate 73 /
Interstate 74, off the Ether/Steeds exit.
Steeds is twelve miles south of
The North Carolina Zoological Park.
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Triangulation Station Markers
Located at the Steed homeplace (1948)
History
Steeds today
The Community of Steeds is not the once prosperous railroading area as in the past, but the people of Steeds are still close and friendly.
Religion plays a big part in the community. The Asbury
Baptist Church
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...
and Mt. Zion
Wesleyan Church are both within a few miles from the center of the community.
Greenthumb Nursery, established in 1960, supplies
landscaping companies and wholesale dealers with variations of
trees,
bushes
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
,
flowers,
plants, and other landscaping items.
Agriculture is a huge way of life for many people living near the Steeds area. There are many
livestock farms in the area, which includes
cattle,
chickens
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult m ...
,
pigs and
horses
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...
. There is also a large number of
farms that produce a wide variety of
vegetation, including
wheat straw,
produce,
hay,
pine straw, and other things that help the farmers of the Community of Steeds make a living.
References
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Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, North Carolina
Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
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