Meat Camp, North Carolina

Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States

Meat Camp

Unincorporated community

Meat Camp

Location within the state of North Carolina

Coordinates: 36°17′58″N 81°40′35″W﻿ / ﻿36.29944°N 81.67639°W﻿ / 36.29944; -81.67639
Country| United States
State| North Carolina
County| Watauga County
Elevation

| 3,402 ft (1,037 m)
Time zone| UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)| UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code|

28607

Area code| 828
GNIS feature ID| 1021403[1]

Meat Camp is an unincorporated community located in Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. It is supposedly named after a primitive packing house used by hunters since before the Revolutionary War.[2] Meat Camp has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.[3][4] The community is located on Meat Camp Road (via NC 194), north of Boone.

## History

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Situated along the Old Buffalo Trail and established before the Revolutionary War, Meat Camp was the location where hunters stored their dressed animal carcasses until they were ready to return to their homes in the lowlands. Between 1790-1800 a road was established through the area, connecting the Yadkin River Valley (near Wilkesboro) to Trade, Tennessee. In 1851, the Meat Camp Baptist Church was organized, establishing a permanent population in the area to this day.[2]

## See also

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* South Fork New River

## References

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1. ^ "Meat Camp, North Carolina". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
2. ^ a b Sakowski, Carolyn (2011). Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads. John F. Blair. ISBN 978-0-89587-559-4.
3. ^ Petras, Kathryn; Petras, Ross (December 18, 2007). Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity. Random House Publishing Group. p. 246\. ISBN 978-0-307-41761-9.
4. ^ Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. xi. ISBN 978-1-4405-0739-7.

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

County seat: Boone

Towns|

* Beech Mountain‡
* Blowing Rock‡
* Boone
* Seven Devils‡

Watauga County map

CDPs|

* Cove Creek
* Foscoe
* Valle Crucis

Unincorporated
communities|

* Aho
* Deep Gap
* Meat Camp
* Silverstone
* Sugar Grove
* Todd
* Vilas
* Zionville

Footnotes|

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

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