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Elizabethtown, North Carolina

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Elizabethtown is a town in and the county seat of Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,296 at the 2020 census. Elizabethtown was chartered in 1773 on the west banks of the Cape Fear River, approximately halfway between Fayetteville and Wilmington, North Carolina. Tory Hole Park in downtown Elizabethtown was the site of the Battle of Elizabethtown, a pivotal victory for the Patriots in the American Revolutionary War that ended Loyalist control of the region. A former river port that primarily exported Naval stores and lumber, Elizabethtown is now a regional industrial and manufacturing hub centered around the Elizabethtown Airport Industrial Park, with many natural attractions that attract visitors year-round.

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Elizabethtown, North Carolina
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Bladen County Hospital

South Poplar Street 501
28337
North Carolina, United States
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Cape Fear Valley Health

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Trinity Methodist Church (Elizabethtown, North Carolina)
Trinity Methodist Church (Elizabethtown, North Carolina)

Trinity Methodist Church, also known as Old Trinity Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church and national historic district located at Broad and Lower Streets in Elizabethtown, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built about 1848, and is a two-story, rectangular, frame Federal-style church. Surrounding the church on three sides is the church cemetery. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

WBLA

WBLA (1440 AM; "Da Branch") is a radio station broadcasting a gospel music format. Licensed to Elizabethtown, North Carolina, United States, it serves the greater Fayetteville, North Carolina area. The station is owned by Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church.

Curtis L. Brown Jr. Field

Curtis L. Brown Jr. Field (ICAO: KEYF, FAA LID: EYF) is a town owned, public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Elizabethtown, a town in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned EYF by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Bakers Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Bakers Creek is a 4.81 mi (7.74 km) long 3rd order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.

Ellis Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Ellis Creek is an 11.76 mi (18.93 km)-long 2nd-order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.

Browns Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Browns Creek is a 27.78 mi (44.71 km) long 2nd order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.

Turnbull Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Turnbull Creek is a 27.78 mi (44.71 km) long 3rd order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.

Jones Lake State Park
Jones Lake State Park

Jones Lake State Park is a North Carolina state park in Bladen County, North Carolina in the United States near Elizabethtown. It covers 2,208-acre (8.94 km2), including the Carolina bay lakes of Jones Lake and Salters Lake. Jones Lake State Park is north of Elizabethtown on North Carolina Highway 242 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain region. The park offers year-round recreation, including fishing, swimming, boating, hiking, picnicking and environmental and historical education programs.

Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest
Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest

Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest (TCESF) is a 890-acre (3.6 km2) North Carolina State Forest in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. It is the only educational state forest located in North Carolina's coastal plain. Jones Lake State Park is adjacent to the forest, and both are surrounded by Bladen Lakes State Forest. The forest's primary purpose is public education of forestry practices.

Bladen County, North Carolina
Bladen County, North Carolina

Bladen County () is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,606. Its county seat is Elizabethtown. The county was created in 1734 as Bladen Precinct and gained county status in 1739.

Pemberton Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Pemberton Creek is a 3.24 mi (5.21 km) long 1st order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.

Mulford Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)

Mulford Creek is a 1.47 mi (2.37 km) long 1st order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.