Long View, North Carolina
Long View is a town in Burke and Catawba counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 4,871 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hickory– Lenoir– Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Originally known as "Penelope," Long View incorporated in 1907. Geography Long View is located in western Catawba County and eastern Burke County at (35.726132, -81.383811). It is bordered to the north and east by the city of Hickory, to the west by the town of Hildebran, and to the south by the census-designated place of Mountain View. U.S. Route 70 passes through Long View, leading east into Hickory and west to Morganton. Interstate 40 crosses the southern part of Long View, with access from Exit 121 (Old Shelby Road/33rd Street). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 0.26%, is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,088 people, 2,182 households, and ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German language, German word , the Dutch language, Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh language, Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fort ...
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