Glendale Springs 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 ...

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, United States. Glendale Springs is located on

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, southeast of Jefferson. Glendale Springs has a

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with ZIP code 28629. The Glendale Springs Inn was listed on the

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in 1979.

Media reference

In the 1990 movie hit,

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, Cole Trickle (

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) is first mistaken as being from Glendale Springs when Tim Daland (

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) corrects the mistake and clarifies he is instead from

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