Kannapolis
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city in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Counties
- Cabarrus and Rowan
- Named after
- Cannon Mills
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- Doug Wilson
- Total
- 34.06 sq mi (88.22 km )
- Land
- 33.50 sq mi (86.76 km )
- Water
- 0.56 sq mi (1.46 km ) 1.64%
- Elevation
- 764 ft (233 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 59,321
- Density
- 1,585.5/sq mi (612.18/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 28081, 28082, 28083
- Area codes
- 704 , 980
- Fips code
- 37-35200
- Website
- kannapolisnc .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Kannapolis
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cabarrus County
- Population
- 53114
- Area
- 85.56855
- Elevation
- 253
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Concord
- Official website
- www.ci.kannapolis.nc.us
- Image
- Kannapolis NC 1.jpg
- Households
- 17569
- Dialing code
- 704
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- Commons category
- Kannapolis, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Kannapolis, North Carolina
- category for people born here
- Category:People born in Kannapolis
- postal code
- 28083
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kannapolis, North Carolina
- inception
- 1906-00-00
- P8168
- Bitis peringueyi
- water as percent of area
- 1.7313
- per capita income
- 27198
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Encyclopedic overview
Kannapolis (/kəˈnæpəlɪs/) is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties in North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte, and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The city of Kannapolis was incorporated in 1984. The population was 53,114 at the 2020 census, which makes Kannapolis the 19th-most populous city in North Carolina. It is the home of the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, the Low-A baseball affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, and it is the hometown of the Earnhardt racing family. It is also the headquarters for the Haas F1 racing team. The center of the city is home to the North Carolina Research Campus, a public-private venture that focuses on food, nutrition, and biotech research.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kannapolis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.