asheville

     

Asheville is a city in Buncombe County, North Carolina, an is its county seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 68,889. It is the largest city in western North Carolina, and continues to grow. As of 2006, the Census Bureau estimates that Asheville's population is 72,789 . Asheville is a part of the four-county Asheville metropolitan statistical area, the population of which was estimated by the Census Bureau in 2006 to be 398,009.

Trivia about asheville

  • The graves of O. Henry & Thomas Wolfe are in this N.C. city where Wolfe was born