Greensboro, North Carolina (place)

Location

• County: Guilford
• Longitude: 79.95
• Latitude: 36.08

Population (estimated)

• City of Greensboro: 213,003 people
• Guilford County: 393,496 people

Area of City: 113.06 square miles
Paved Streets: 1,107 miles
Unpaved Streets: 5.4 miles
Water Mains: 1,470 miles
Sanitary Sewers: 1,399 miles

Water Pumpage: 33,853,221 gallons/day
Water Meters: 87,053 meters
Full-Time Municipal Employees: 2,470 people

Community Facilities

• Fire Stations: 16 stations
• Main Library Branches: 9 facilities
• Parks, Open Space, Beautification Areas: 3,160 acres

Recreation Centers: 13 centers

Housing

• Total Units: 92,045
• Occupied Units: 85,925

Public Housing Units

• Convention: 2,485
• Section 8: Existing 1,559

Taxes

• Tax Valuation: 2000-2001 $16,175,000,000
• Valuation: $.5825 (per $100)
• General Fund: $.5625 (per $100)
• Transit: $.0200 (per $100)

City-Wide Representatives

• Keith A. Holliday (Mayor since 1995)
• Yvonne J. Johnson (Council Member, Mayor Pro Tem since 1993)
• Donald R. Vaughn (Council Member, At Large] since 1991)
• Tom Phillips (Council Member, At Large since 1999)
• Earl Jones (Council Member, District 1 since 1983)
• Claudette Burroughs-White (Council Member, District 2 since 1994)
• Robbie Perkins (Council Member, District 3 since 1993)
• Nancy Vaughan (Council Member, District 4 since 1997)
• Sandy Carmany (Council Member, District 5 since 1995)

Colleges

• Bennett College
• Guilford College
• Greensboro College
• North Carolina A&T State University
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Notables

• Greensboro was the site of the 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter to protest the non-serving of blacks.
• Vicks VapoRub was invented in GSO by the Vicks family.
• It's really very beautiful in Greensboro. It's the only successful city I know that in Downtown, there are still wooded areas.