Mount Airy Township, Surry County, North Carolina

Location of Mount Airy Township in Surry County, N.C.

Mount Airy Township is one of fifteen townships in Surry County, North Carolina. The township had a population of 24,828 according to the 2000 census.

Geographically, Mount Airy Township occupies 43.1 square miles (112 km²) in northern Surry County, with its northern border being with the state of Virginia. Mount Airy Township is the most populated township of Surry County, accounting for nearly 35% of the total county population. There are multiple unincorporated communities located here, including Bannertown, Boones Hill, Flat Rock, Franklin, Holly Springs, Salem, Sheltontown, Slate Mountain, Toast, White Plains, and White Sulphur Springs.

The township surrounds the city of Mount Airy and includes the census-designated places of Flat Rock, Toast, and White Plains. U.S. Highway 52 bypasses the city to the west and hosts much of the area's retail activity, including hotels, restaurants, and the Mayberry Mall. Interstate 74 passes through the south side of Mount Airy Township, which is in the Winston-Salem/Greensboro Combined MSA.

Carroll County, Virginia

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Stewarts Creek Township

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Mount Airy Township

Dobson Township

Eldora Township

Long Hill Township

Municipalities and communities of Surry County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Dobson

City	Mount Airy

Towns	Dobson Elkin‡ Pilot Mountain

CDPs	Flat Rock Lowgap Toast White Plains

Unincorporated communities	Albion Ararat Ash Hill Bannertown Blackwater Blevins Store Boones Hill Bottom Burch Cedar Hill Combstown Copeland Crooked Oak Crutchfield Devotion Fairview Franklin Hills Grove Holly Springs Indian Grove Jenkinstown Ladonia Level Cross Little Richmond Long Hill Mount Herman Mountain Park Mulberry New Hope Oak Grove Pine Hill Pine Ridge Poplar Springs Red Brush Rockford Round Peak Salem Salem Fork Sheltontown Shoals Siloam Slate Mountain State Road Stony Knoll Thurmond Turkey Ford Union Cross Union Hill Westfield‡ White Sulphur Springs Woodville Zephyr

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 36°31′09″N 80°36′38″W / 36.5192688°N 80.610489°W / 36.5192688; -80.610489

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