Biltmore Forest, North Carolina

• Barron's: Bring your money to Asheville
  

  People encouraged by firmer stock prices or Wall Street executives looking for somewhere to stash their big bonuses should consider buying a luxury second home in the area.

• WNC snowfall totals
  

  The following snowfall totals have been provided by the National Weather Service and were measured within the past 15 hours.

• Good news about water quality due to regulatory progress
  

  The State of North Carolina Division of Water Quality recently provided some good news to Asheville and Buncombe County.

• Asheville actress-activist Andie MacDowell urges Americans to help abused women in Congo
  

  Actress, activist and Asheville resident Andie MacDowell sees a pretty simple solution to a very complex problem that involves rape, torture and other atrocities against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Buncombe County property transfers
  

  The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Jan. 25-29: Arden * Lot 26 of The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, $1,695,000, Marvin and Susan Slosman to Charles and Annabelle Heine Asheville * 5 Worley Place, $80,000, William S. Chase and Michelle Miller to William S. Chase and David Flander * Unit 486 phase 2 of Windswept Views, ...

• Asheville Police Department warns against false phone solicitors
  

  City police Tuesday warned the community to beware of fraudulent phone calls requesting donations for the police department.

• Travel on behalf of public should stand up to public scrutiny
  

  In an era of retreats in budgeting and advances in telecommunications, public agencies need to rethink their travel policies.

• St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines inspires writer
  

  'I remember my mother driving up the driveway in our 1937 Oldsmobile and coming in sight of the school,' recalled novelist Gail Godwin about her enrollment, in 1944, in Asheville's boarding school for young women, St.

• Progress: Don't expect power back today
  

  It could be a while before power is restored to the almost 63,000 Progress Energy customers without power.

• An idea on improving traffic flow and pedestrian safety
  

  A child is killed on Hendersonville Road. Who is to blame? If we close our separate doors, death will knock again.

• Forest management : forest working plans : guide to lectures delivered at the Biltmore Forest School
  

  Text Archive > American Libraries > Forest management : forest working plans : guide to lectures delivered at the Biltmore Forest School Forest management : forest working plans : guide to lectures delivered at the Biltmore Forest School This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

• Swannanoa Votes "No" to Incorporation
  

  A divisive measure gets shot down -- as it looks like Swannanoa will not become Western North Carolina's newest town.

• Buncombe property Transfers
  

  The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Oct. 19-23.: Arden * Lot 2 of The Glen At Mills Gap, $410,000, Stephen M. and Melissa A. Banikes to Sharon C. and Robert John O'Neal Asheville * 38 Davenport Road, $155,000, Jane and Robert E. Dame III to William M. and Patricia Anna Dickson * 3 of Willoughby Run Drive, ...

• More Wickedness: Weekend Roundup Oct. 23-25
  

  Fall is here, Halloween approaches and one of the funnest weekends of the post-summer year is upon us.

• Mystery returns to Cradle of Forestry
  

  It was Halloween night in 1906 when Tommy Hodges, one of the students from the Biltmore Forest School, disappeared.

• GOLF & TRAVEL
  

  Most people think they have to travel to Europe to visit authentic castles. One of the world's best is actually not that far away in Asheville, NC.

• Real estate appraisal business opens
  

  Asheville native Phil Blake, a real estate appraiser in Western North Carolina for the past 25 years, has opened Blake Appraisals.

• Buncombe County Property Transfers
  

  The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Sept. 28-Oct. 2: Arden 508 of Carrington Place, $127,000, Mary F. Dobler to Rolf E. and Phyllis L. Culver Asheville * 197 Michigan Ave.

• Andie MacDowell to stump for environment
  

  Biltmore Forest actress Andie MacDowell will appear at the inaugural Environmental Film Festival on Friday and Saturday at Flat Rock Cinema.

City Description

Biltmore Forest is an affluent town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,559 in 2008. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Biltmore Forest is located at 35°32′16″N 82°32′24″W / 35.53778°N 82.54°W / 35.53778; -82.54 (35.537884, -82.539882). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,440 people, 588 households, and 456 families residing in the town. The population density was 494.5 people per square mile (191.1/km²). There were 653 housing units at an average density of 224.2/sq mi (86.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 99.24% White, 0.35% Native American, 0.14% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.21% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.14% of the population. There were 588 households out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.8% were married couples living together, 3.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 20.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65

City Contained By:

• Buncombe County
• North Carolina

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 7.51096551997 km squared

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