Tyro is an unincorporated community located a few miles west of Lexington and 24 miles (38.6 km) south of Winston-Salem in Davidson County

Davidson County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 149,331 people, 58,156 households, and 42,512 families residing in the county. The population density was 267 people per square mile . There were 62,432 housing units at an average density of 113 per square mile...

, North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

. Located only minutes outside of Tyro is Daniel Boone's Cave Park located on the Yadkin River

Yadkin River

The Yadkin River is one of the longest rivers in North Carolina, flowing . It rises in the northwestern portion of the state near the Blue Ridge Parkway's Thunder Hill Overlook. Several parts of the river are impounded by dams for water, power, and flood control. The river becomes the Pee Dee...

. Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...

 is rumored to have once hidden in the cave from a group of Native Americans that were avidly pursuing him. Neighboring communities include Reeds

Reeds, North Carolina

Reeds is an unincorporated community in Tyro township, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is located at the intersection of Old US Highway 64 and NC Highway 150. Neighboring communities and municipalities include Tyro, Arcadia, Yadkin College, and Lexington....

, Churchland

Churchland, North Carolina

Churchland is an unincorporated community in Boone Township, Davidson County, North Carolina located along NC Highway 150 southwest of Lexington, North Carolina. Churchland Baptist Church and Churchland Elementary School are centered in the Churchland community.-Churchland Baptist...

, Linwood

Linwood, North Carolina

Linwood is a small unincorporated community just south of Lexington in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. The area contains operations of several important companies in Davidson County, including Keply Hardwood, Legget-Platt, PPG Industries, and Kimberly Clark...

 and Southmont.

Tyro is home to West Davidson High School, as well as Tyro Middle School; both of which are part of the Davidson County School System

Davidson County Schools

Davidson County Schools is a school district in Davidson County, North Carolina. The administrative education board is headquartered just off of U.S. Highway 64 on County School Road just outside the city limits of Lexington, North Carolina...

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Business community

• Subway Restaurants
• Dollar General
  Dollar General
  Dollar General Corp. is a U.S. chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of January 2011, Dollar General operated over 9,300 stores in 35 U.S. states....
  
  
• Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza is a privately owned restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska that operates fast casual Italian franchises. -History:...
  
  
• Snap Fitness
• Pizza Hut (Coming Soon)
• West Espresso
• Food Lion
  Food Lion
  Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states as well as Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia under the Food Lion, Harveys Supermarket, Bloom, Bottom Dollar...
  
  
• NewBridge Bank
  NewBridge Bank
  NewBridge Bank is a banking company based in Greensboro, North Carolina, with locations in North Carolina and Virginia. The company formed from the merger of Lexington State Bank and FNB Southeast in November, 2007. NewBridge Bank is the banking subsidiary of NewBridge Bancorp...
  
   (formerly Lexington State Bank
  Lexington State Bank
  Lexington State Bank was a banking company based in Lexington, North Carolina. Its motto was "The Bank" and its slogans were "Beeline Banking", and "Easy as L-S-B". The bank had 29 branches across the Piedmont Triad region operating in Davidson, Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph counties of...
  
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• SunTrust Bank
• Tyro Family Pharmacy
• Quick Check
• Alexander & Associates Realty
• Stamey's Barbecue of Tyro
• Hardware Store
• Tyro Airport.
• 1st. Tyro Cavalry Regiment of Foot Barracks.
• US Postal Service Contract Postal Unit (CPU)
• Victory Auto
• Movie Gallery (Condemned on February 3, 2010.)

External links

• Tyro United Methodist Church
• West Davidson Sr. High School
• Tyro Middle School
• West Davidson Public Library
• Tyro Plantation