Roxboro
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human settlement in Person County, North Carolina, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Person
- Mayor
- Cynthia C. Petty
- Total
- 7.14 sq mi (18.49 km )
- Land
- 7.13 sq mi (18.47 km )
- Water
- 0.0077 sq mi (0.02 km )
- Elevation
- 715 ft (218 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 8,289
- Density
- 1,140.3/sq mi (440.28/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 27573, 27574
- Area code s
- 336 , 743 , *919 *small portion near Granville Co.
- Fips code
- 37-58160
- Major airport
- Raleigh–Durham International Airport
- Website
- www .cityofroxboro .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Roxboro
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Person County
- Population
- 8134
- Area
- 16.724483
- Elevation
- 218
- Capital of
- Person County
- Official website
- www.cityofroxboro.com
- Image
- Main Street on courthouse square, Roxboro.jpg
- Households
- 3455
- Dialing code
- 336
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- Commons category
- Roxboro, North Carolina
- inception
- 1855-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.1035
- per capita income
- 26827
- postal code
- 27574
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Encyclopedic overview
Roxboro is a city in and the county seat of Person County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 8,134 at the 2020 census. The city is 30 miles (48 km) north of Durham and is a part of the four-county Durham–Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 649,903 as of the 2020 Census. The Durham–Chapel Hill MSA is a part of the larger Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 2,043,867 as of the 2020 Census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roxboro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.