Tarboro, NC Road Trips
Plan drives from Tarboro, NC with practical route pages for distance, drive time, fuel cost, road character, and places to stop along the way.
Photo: Mark Stebnicki
Trip Routes
1
Longest Drive
255.7 mi
Gastonia, NC
Quickest Drive
4h 54m
Gastonia, NC
Plan Around Tarboro, NC
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Tarboro, NC by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
10,705
Median Income
$49,386
Median Home Value
$155,500
Median Age
48.9
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Tarboro, NC at a Glance
Founded
1760
Elevation
43 ft
Area
11 mi²
Notable People from Tarboro, NC
A sampling of people born in Tarboro, NC.
Montrezl Harrell
1994
American basketball player
Hugh Shelton
1942
recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Trent Tucker
1959
American basketball player
Ben Jones
1941
American actor and politician
Derrick Lewis
1966
French basketball player
Paris Kea
1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
John Spencer Bassett
1867–1928
American historian (1867–1928)
Calvin Roberts
1956
American basketball player
Kelvin Bryant
1960
player of American football
Landmarks & Historic Sites
Attractions and heritage-registered places located in Tarboro, NC.
Cotton Press
wooden cotton press in Tarboro, North Carolina
City data from Wikidata (Q931645), available under CC0. Photos from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses. See our methodology for details.
Traveler Guide to Tarboro, NC
Tarboro is a city in North Carolina going all the way back to British settlement in 1760. A thriving river port just below the fall line of the Piedmont in the years leading up to the Civil War, now its level of activity could probably be better compared to the languid-like flow of the Tar River floating by. Tarboro has many preserved antebellum homes of the Victorian, Second Empire, Neo-classical revival, and Arts and Crafts-style, and the only original remaining town common outside of Boston, this in spite of decimation to the area by Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
1 Blount-Bridgers House (The Grove), 130 Bridgers St, ☏ +1 252-823-4159. W-F 10AM-4PM. An 1808 Federalist-style home owned by a Revolutionary War veteran named Thomas Blount retaining works by local artist Hobson Pittman and others.
Quality Inn & Suites, 1504 Western Boulevard, ☏ +1 252-824-0088. Budget Inn, 205 Western Boulevard, ☏ +1 252-823-5021. Best Western, 102 Market Centre Drive, ☏ +1 252-824-0700.
Tarboro is about 17 miles east of Rocky Mount on US 64.
Travel tips adapted from Tarboro on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.
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