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Sylva

town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States of America
Place Town In The United States Q2043861

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
town in the United States, county seat, city in North Carolina[4][5]
Inception
1889[9]
Official website
www.townofsylva.org[11]
Official name
Sylva

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.374°, -83.218°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jackson County[2]

Population and size

Area
8.263836, 8.264691
Elevation above sea level
839.0
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 839 m GeoNames 623 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
2,588, 2,578[12][13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2,588 · 2,578 GeoNames 2,617 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
828[8]
Located in time zone
Eastern Time Zone[7]
Postal code
28779[6]
More facts +8
Website
www.townofsylva.org
Located in
Jackson County
Capital of
Jackson County
Coordinates
🗺️ 35.374°, -83.218°
Number of households
1031.0
Per capita income
20884.0
Territory overlaps
Sylva urban area
Water as percent of area
0.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Sylva en Sylva, NC en Sylva, North Carolina ar سيلفا ar سيلفا، كارولاينا الشماليه es Sylva (Carolina del Norte) fa سیلوا ja シルヴァ ja シルバ ko 실바 ru Силва ru Силва (Северная Каролина) zh 席爾瓦 (北卡羅萊納州)
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
160523587
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82074520
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
SylvaNC.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
39345
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
37-66500
Freebase ID
/m/0yhcm
GNIS Feature ID
995798, 2406705
GeoNames ID
4494335
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
sylva-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0430828
J9U entity ID
987007534123205171
MusicBrainz area ID
fcb3dc88-9bad-43ae-8a82-416477406bbd
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OpenStreetMap relation ID
179804
Quora topic ID
Sylva-NC
UN/LOCODE
USSL6
WOEID
2503317
Who's on First ID
85980635

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🔗 Connections
People born here 4
Michael Bingham, Evy Leibfarth, Johnny Oates, David McKee Hall
← Place of publication 2
Herald and Ruralite, Jackson County Journal
Capital of 1
Jackson County
Contained subdivisions 1
Herald and Ruralite
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
county seat
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Jackson County
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
People who died here 1
David McKee Hall
← Capital 1
Jackson County
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Jackson County
← Filming location 1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Summary

Sylva is a town in the United States[1].

Body

Identity

Sylva's official name is recorded as Sylva[14].

Related Entities

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . nctreasurer.com. nctreasurer.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . townofsylva.org. townofsylva.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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