Glade Valley is an unincorporated community located in Alleghany County, North Carolina

Alleghany County, North Carolina

-Major highways:* U.S. Highway 21* U.S. Highway 221* North Carolina Highway 18* North Carolina Highway 88* North Carolina Highway 93* North Carolina Highway 113-Demographics:...

, USA along U.S. Highway 21 between Cherry Lane

Cherry Lane, North Carolina

Cherry Lane is an unincorporated community located in the Cherry Lane Township of Alleghany County, North Carolina. The community was settled around 1838 and was named for the cherry tree-bordered lane that led to the home of local resident Frank Bryan...

 and Sparta

Sparta, North Carolina

Sparta is a town in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,817 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alleghany County.-Geography:Sparta is located at ....

 .

Major attractions

A former private high school located here and run by the Presbyterian Church, Glade Valley High School, later known as Glade Valley The Mountain Learning Village. The former gymnasium has been recently converted to a music theater called the Silver Dollar Music Park, which has regular concerts featuring bluegrass

Bluegrass music

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 and country music

Country music

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 acts.

Demographics

Glade Valley's Zip Code Tabulation Area

ZIP Code Tabulation Area

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 (Zip Code 28627) has a population of 1,405 as of the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

. The population is 49.5% male and 50.5% female. About 96.4% of the population is white, 0.7% African-American, 0.5% American Indian

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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, 0.3% Asian

Asian people

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, 2.6% Hispanic

Hispanic

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, and 1.5% of some other race. 0.6% of people are two or more races. There are no native Hawaiians

Hawaii

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 or other Pacific Islander

Pacific Islander

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s.

The median household income

Median household income

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 is $29,679 with 17.8% of the population living below the poverty

Poverty

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line.

External links

• Silver Dollar Music Park homepage