Almond, North Carolina

Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States

35°22′11″N 83°33′55″W / 35.36972°N 83.56528°W / 35.36972; -83.56528CountryUnited StatesStateNorth CarolinaCounty SwainNamed forBud Almond^[1]Elevation

1,722 ft (525 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code

28702

Area code828GNIS feature ID1018806^[2]

Almond is an unincorporated community in Swain County, North Carolina, United States. Almond is located on the Little Tennessee River and North Carolina Highway 28 7.9 miles (12.7 km) west-southwest of Bryson City.

History

Almond has a post office with ZIP code 28702, which opened on March 17, 1886.^[3]^[4] The community was named for Bud Almond, who provided the land on which the town was founded.^[2] At one time, Almond was a scheduled stop with a depot for the Southern Railway on the Murphy Branch.

During the construction of Fontana Dam, the post office, school, and railway depot located here were moved during 1943. Today, most of Almond is now covered by Fontana Lake.^[5]

References

^ "North Carolina Gazetteer". Retrieved December 24, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Almond". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
^ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
^ Ellison, George (June 12, 2013). "First of the Floppy Disc: Almond School". Smoky Mountain News. Retrieved May 28, 2020.