White Sulphur Springs, North Carolina

White Sulphur Springs (sometimes seen as just Sulphur Springs) is a small unincorporated community in Surry County, North Carolina on the outskirts of the city of Mount Airy near the Virginia state line. The community sits on the Ararat River and once served as a popular late-nineteenth century resort (Powell 1968, p. 291). The community's name comes from the White Sulphur Springs Hotel that once stood here.

References

Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1

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°32′24″N 80°34′30″W / 36.540°N 80.575°W / 36.540; -80.575

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