Black Mountain, North Carolina


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    City Description

    Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,511 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is named for the Black Mountain range of the Blue Ridge range in the Southern Appalachians. Singer Roberta Flack, former basketball player Brad Daugherty, and NFL quarterback Brad Johnson hail from Black Mountain. Black Mountain College was formerly located near the town. Black Mountain is located at 35°37′9″N 82°19′32″W / 35.61917, -82.32556 (35.619208, -82.325434). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.5 square miles (16.7 km²), of which, 6.4 square miles (16.7 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.31%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 7,511 people, 3,340 households, and 2,027 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,165.7 people per square mile (450.3/km²). There were 3,703 housing units at an average density of 574.7/sq mi (222.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 90.84% White, 6.27% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.87% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.45% from other races, and 1.22%

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    City Contained By:

    • Buncombe County
    • North Carolina

    Timezones:

    • North American Eastern Time Zone

    Size:

    • 16.8349227172 km squared

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    What kind of lizard is black with a blue tail found all over my yard in the North Carolina mountains?
    Question:
    My 8 year old son keeps finding these lizards in the yard in tall grass and sometimes under rocks. What are they?

    Answer:
    The lizard is defitnetly a Five-lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus) Description: 5-8.5 in. (12.5-21.5 cm) As their name implies, five-lined skinks have five light lines that run down their back and tails. While female skinks usually retain this pattern throughout life, adult males often become nearly uniform brown or olive in coloration with orange-red coloration on their jaws during the spring breeding season. Young five-lined skinks have five white or yellowish stripes on a black ground color and a bright blue tail. Five-lined skinks can be distinguished from the southeastern five-lined skinks by a row of enlarged scales under the tail and from broadhead skinks by smaller size and four labial scales instead of five. Range/Habitat: The five-lined skink occurs throughout North Carolina except for the Outer Banks. They can be found in almost any habitat but are most abundant in areas with abundant rotting stumps and logs and in swamps and along river margins. Habits: Five-lined skinks are primarily terrestrial but often climbs trees, especially dead and decaying snags where insects are abundant. They are active year-round in warm weather. Reproduction: Five-lined skinks generally mates in spring and lay 6 to 10 eggs in nests which are usually in rotten stumps or logs, sawdust piles, or beneath sheltering objects. Prey: Five-lined skinks eat various arthropods including spiders, roaches, crickets, grasshoppers, and beetle larvae. Remarks: Skinks, particularly young with blue tails, are often called "scorpions" and are thought to have a poisonous sting. This myth is false, and although a large skink can deliver a powerful nip, no lizards in the Southeastern United States are dangerous to humans.

    city girl moving to mountains (in north carolina!!!!!) please help me settle down.?
    Question:
    PLEASE! i live in san francisco rite now. and i hate where i am moving (not 2 offend anyone!!!) i mean, I HATE MOUNTAINS! they r a waste of space (im only 11, please no rude anwers!!) i mean, look at the picture! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.carol inamornings.com/images/black-mountain.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ca rolinamornings.com/western-north-carolina.html&h=169&w=224&sz=15& hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=e09HhU8A4CSS7M:&tbnh=81&tbnw=108&prev= i want to know how i can ccol off and look on the bright side. but i cant think of 1! when i went to the asheville mall, all the guys where gay, (alot of guys holding hands...!) and all the girls looked snotty and mean. (they all where wearing abercrombie and hollister.co clothes!) i didnt c any cute guys, and on top of alll that, im living on a MOUNTAIN TOP! my mom says it doesnt snow in black mountain, asheville and so i will never get 2 c snow! EVER! im so mad and feel horrible!!!!!!!!! also, i no there are gay people in san francisco.... alot..... but when i went to the mall, it seemed like it was only-gays alowd. creepy. ALSO, i have !NOTHING! against gay people. please undertsnad this. my parents friends are gay. okay? but there were WAY 2 many gay people. it made me feel weird.........

    Answer:
    Well, the picture looked beautiful and I am not a mountain girl either. I got moved from Texas to KS when I was your age and I was pissed forever. But I got to like the place I am at now. Maybe you can make some internet penpals (in a safe place wherever that is on the internet anymore!). Get to know some people before you move, maybe it will become easier. After you start school you might find that not all the girls are snotty, maybe there was a snotty girl sale that day so that's why there were so many of them. Like cockroaches. Now is the time to learn human tolerance if you haven't already. I'm sure not all the guys were gay, there were cute guys but you were so busy looking for snotty girls and gay guys that you couldn't see them. Besides, you're 11....don't worry about that right now.... The more mad you get the less fun you will allow yourself to have. Understand that you can't change it so untill you can move away for college you have to make the best of it. Will being bitter and hateful make the place fun? Will it make snow appear? No. So you have wasted your time and energy being mad. Look on the internet and search for fun things to do in Black mountain....you never know whats there!

    whats the best route to see fall leaves in north carolina mountains?
    Question:
    i live in the foot hills and we are going to see the leaves this weekend. where to go to see the best sights?black mnt. or toward ashville. really intrested in the parkway. is there a favorite route? ** low gap is that on the other side of hendersonville?

    Answer:
    I wish you luck, but most trees in the mountains have already lost their leaves. The peak season up and down the parkway and the lower elevations was mid-late October. I live in the Piedmont and the leaves are past peak even here. The parkway is always a nice drive though. If you live in the foothills, I would go to Asheville then head North up the parkway to around the Fancy Gap, VA area, then come back down using 221 or I-77. The village of Lowgap is right across the NC state line coming back from Fancy Gap.

    Question about Camp Merri-mac[for girls]/Camp Timberlake[for boys]?
    Question:
    ok so I went to merri-mac for 3 years when i was younger and there are so many rumors behind the place that it's ridiculous...take stardust cabin for instance..everyone knew it was fake but still fun to believe that the derranged campers stayed there lol. anyway..if anyone cam find it, was it true that it was once an insane asylum before it was a camp and, Myrtle Steps, those freaky rinky-dink stairs, about a hundred of them down one of the back ways that everyone slips on at least once...yeah..those hurt...anyways is it true that there was a girl named Myrtle who fell down them and died? I wouldnt doubt that someone would been killed by those, they are awsful but apparently they are haunte dhow too...another thing wich iwouldnt doubt. anyways. just wanted to know if it was really THAT interesting. Thanks guys, much love. didn't know how to catagorize it. the camp is in Black Mountain north carolina, not to far from the biltmore estates..or some big mansion like that.

    Answer:
    I don't know about those camps, but I do know that the staff at most summer camps encourage such rumors! (Often, they start them.) It makes the whole summer-camp experience exciting and more fun for the campers, and that brings them back the next year. At my summer camp, there were a lot of dragonflies, and we all knew that there was a dragon off in the woods on the other side of the creek. We knew because of the magic grass that grew on the creek bank, and everyone knows that dragonflies and magic grass means there's a dragon! And we heard it! Just before bedtime, every night, a loud "Rooooaar" could be heard coming from those woods. In fact, that's how we knew it was time for bed. Not only did we have a great time looking for things like dragon eggs and dragon hair, it kept us out of the woods and away from the creek without a counselor. Forty plus years later, I still smile when I think about Camp Oconomowoc.


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