Esmeralda, North Carolina

Eskota
(Yancey County)

Essex
(Halifax County)

Summary

Community
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Current Weather

While our information shows that the community of Esmeralda is historic,^<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Esmeralda, we'll be sure to add our findings.

Esmeralda would have been located within present day Rutherford County

While the community is gone, the present day location for Esmeralda is 380 feet [115.82 m] above sea level.^<2>

Time Zone: The area where Esmeralda was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Both Nevada (historic) and New Mexico (historic) have communities that are also named Esmeralda.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>	2008 ^<4> Population	Change Since 2000
Asheville	NW	18 mi [28.97 km]	74,543	8.21% increase
Black Mountain	N	12 mi [19.31 km]	7,877	4.87% increase
Flat Rock	SW	16 mi [25.75 km]	2,910	13.45% increase
Fletcher	W	13 mi [20.92 km]	4,714	12.64% increase
Hendersonville	SW	13 mi [20.92 km]	12,005	15.21% increase
Laurel Park	SW	16 mi [25.75 km]	2,161	17.77% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Esmeralda.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
North Carolina ^<5>

Search for Local Businesses

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Esmeralda no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Asheville. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Esmeralda? Please visit the Map Page for Esmeralda.

Footnotes

<1>	We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Esmeralda, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Esmeralda - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Esmeralda and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Esmeralda. - Return to Citation
<5>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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