Bessemer City, North Carolina



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    Bessemer City is a city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,119 at the 2000 census. Settled in 1756 and founded in 1893, the city's motto is City with a Heart. Bessemer City is located at 35°17′3″N 81°16′58″W / 35.28417, -81.28278 (35.284262, -81.282853). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11.1 km²), of which, 4.2 square miles (11.0 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.70%) is water. Elevation: 904 feet (276 m). Bessemer City is named for Sir Henry Bessemer who created the Bessemer Process for smelting iron. Bessemer City was founded on land purchased from the Ormand family, near the Sloan-Washington-Ormand Iron Furnace. Ironically, it was the Bessemer Process which made Bessemer City's early iron smelting industry obsolete. European settlement in the Bessemer City area dates to 1754, when King George II of England granted adjoining 350-acre (1.4 km) tracts to James Ormand and Adam Meek. Ormand established the Ormand Mining Company to extract iron ore. It is unknown when a furnace was built on the land, but it is mentioned in a deed after 1786 when it was called the

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    City Contained By:

    • Gaston County
    • North Carolina

    Timezones:

    • North American Eastern Time Zone

    Size:

    • 11.1369488744 km squared

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    trying to mail jcfrombc2003@yahoo.com,in bessemer,al.it keeps going to jcfrombc2003@yahoo.com in bessemer,n.c?
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    i've been trying for days to email someone @ this address-jcfrombc2003@yahoo.com.It is in Alabama.But it KEEPS on ending up in Bessemer city,north carolina-the same address-jcfrombc2003@yahoo.com.Is there something else I should be putting after the yahoo.com so it WILL GO TO ALABAMA instead of North Carolina?PLEEEEEEEEEEASE,somebody help!!!THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.I mean,my husband is having an affairw/this person who owns this email address.She is in Alabama and that's where my husband travels to work.We are in North Carolina.I need some kind of answer now,please!URGENT!!!!stormy1tyme@yahoo.com even a registered email,going to the same email address,the cities are both bessemer.one is in alabama,one in north carolina.is there a way to mix them up in mailing,since it just specifies the city in the address,not the state.HELP!!

    Answer:
    The email address won't change by state. That email address will belong to whoever registered it, no matter where they live. If someone in NC registered that email with Yahoo, then that's where it's going to go to. There isn't any way to register the same address to someone else in another state.

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    i'm emailing jcfrombc2003@yahoo.com in alabama.i keep getting someone in bessemer city,north carolina,w/that email address.HELP!!!!!

    Answer:
    Could be that the person has moved. OR your not putting the exact email address of the intended recipient .


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