Drinking water stations with addresses in Fair Bluff and their reported violations in the past:
HICKORY GROVE BAPT CHURCH (Population served: 110, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- Other Non-NPDWR Potential Health Risks - Between FEB-29-2004 and DEC-31-2025, Contaminant: Public Notice
- Other Non-NPDWR Potential Health Risks - Between FEB-22-2003 and DEC-31-2025, Contaminant: Public Notice
- Other Non-NPDWR Potential Health Risks - Between NOV-18-2002 and DEC-31-2025, Contaminant: Public Notice
- Other Non-NPDWR Potential Health Risks - Between AUG-19-2002 and DEC-31-2025, Contaminant: Public Notice
- 10 routine major monitoring violations
- 5 regular monitoring violations
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| This town: |  37.1% | | Whole state: |  12.3% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| This town: | 15.3% | | Whole state: | 5.5% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Fair Bluff, NC
5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Fair Bluff compared to North Carolina state average:
- Median household income significantly below state average.
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Unemployed percentage above state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly above state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Number of college students below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Banks with branches in Fair Bluff (2009 data):
- Branch Banking and Trust Company: Fair Bluff Main Branch at 1054 Main Street, branch established on 1979-05-29. Info updated 2008-12-12: Bank assets: $147,483.6 mil, Deposits: $98,507.9 mil, headquarters in Winston Salem, NC, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 1514 total offices, Holding Company: Bb&T Corporation
School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Columbus County North Carolina:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Electricity (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
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Religion statistics for Fair Bluff
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | United Methodist Church | Original Free Will Baptists | Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
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| Adherents | 65.8% | 11.8% | 6.2% | 2.9% | 2.8% |
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| Congregations | 50.0% | 14.0% | 8.1% | 5.1% | 5.1% |
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| Name | International Pentecostal Holiness Church | Catholic Church | Charismatic Churches Independent | Assemblies of God | Other religions |
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| Adherents | 2.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 4.6% |
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| Congregations | 2.9% | 1.5% | 0.7% | 1.5% | 11.0% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
1 | $2,254 | $27,048 | 1 | $997 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
3 | $6,710 | $26,840 | 1 | $1,276 |
| Totals for Government |
4 | $8,964 | $26,892 | 2 | $2,273 |
Fair Bluff government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $150,000
Solid Waste Management: $66,000
All Other: $1,000
- Construction - Water Utilities: $6,000
- Current Operations - General - Other: $375,000
Police Protection: $164,000
Regular Highways: $140,000
Liquor Stores: $133,000
Sewerage: $128,000
Central Staff Services: $116,000
Solid Waste Management: $71,000
Water Utilities: $55,000
Fire Protection: $27,000
- Federal Intergovernmental - Housing & Community Development: $265,000
All Other: $63,000
Transit Utilities: $35,000
Highways: $22,000
- General - Interest on Debt: $32,000
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - Health: $1,000
- Intergovernmental to State - General: $1,000
- Local Intergovernmental - General Support: $136,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $537,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $523,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $14,000
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $17,000
Interest Earnings: $9,000
Rents: $6,000
- Other Capital Outlay - Water Utilities: $81,000
Police Protection: $27,000
Central Staff: $7,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $430,000
- Revenue - Liquor Stores: $158,000
Water Utilities: $64,000
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $52,000
All Other: $40,000
General Support: $27,000
- Tax - Property: $215,000
NEC: $1,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $188,000
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $0
4.55% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($30,737 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.55% | | North Carolina average: | 8.53% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
4.37% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($30,743 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.37% | | North Carolina average: | 7.27% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Fair Bluff:
- WZFB (1480 AM; 1 kW; FAIR BLUFF, NC; Owner: SOLOMON RADIO PARTNERS, INC.)
- WTAB (1370 AM; 5 kW; TABOR CITY, NC; Owner: WTAB, INC)
- WENC (1220 AM; 5 kW; WHITEVILLE, NC; Owner: DHA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WJAY (1280 AM; 4 kW; MULLINS, SC; Owner: THE GREATER HWY CHURCH OF CHRIST)
- WPTF (680 AM; 50 kW; RALEIGH, NC; Owner: FIRST STATE COMMUNICATIONS)
- WJMX (970 AM; 10 kW; FLORENCE, SC; Owner: QANTUM OF FLORENCE LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- WCEO (840 AM; daytime; 50 kW; COLUMBIA, SC; Owner: EASTERN BROADCASTING GROUP, INC.)
- WVOE (1590 AM; daytime; 1 kW; CHADBOURN, NC; Owner: EBONY ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- WFNC (640 AM; 10 kW; FAYETTEVILLE, NC; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WFMO (860 AM; 1 kW; FAIRMONT, NC; Owner: PRO-MEDIA, INC.)
- WMIR (1200 AM; 7 kW; ATLANTIC BEACH, SC; Owner: ATLANTIC BEACH RADIO, INC.)
- WKKE (1080 AM; daytime; 5 kW; ST. PAULS, NC; Owner: FERRIS YARNELL LOCKLEAR)
- WBAJ (890 AM; daytime; 50 kW; BLYTHEWOOD, SC; Owner: FAMILY FIRST)
Strongest FM radio stations in Fair Bluff:
- WEGX (92.9 FM; DILLON, SC; Owner: QANTUM OF FLORENCE LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- WSTS (100.9 FM; FAIRMONT, NC; Owner: PRO-MEDIA, INC.)
- WHQR (91.3 FM; WILMINGTON, NC; Owner: FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO, INC.)
- WQSD (107.1 FM; BRIARCLIFF ACRES, SC; Owner: QANTUM OF MYRTLE BEACH LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- WKML (95.7 FM; LUMBERTON, NC; Owner: WKML LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WFLB (96.5 FM; LAURINBURG, NC; Owner: WFLB LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WHMC-FM (90.1 FM; CONWAY, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- WZFX (99.1 FM; WHITEVILLE, NC; Owner: WDAS LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WKZQ-FM (101.7 FM; MYRTLE BEACH, SC; Owner: NM LICENSING, LLC)
- WVCO (94.9 FM; LORIS, SC; Owner: CAROLINA BEACH MUSIC BROADCASTING CORP.)
- WUKS (107.7 FM; ST. PAULS, NC; Owner: WDAS LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WCMG (94.3 FM; LATTA, SC; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WFNC-FM (102.3 FM; LUMBERTON, NC; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
TV broadcast stations around Fair Bluff:
- WSFX-TV (Channel 26; WILMINGTON, NC; Owner: SOUTHEASTERN MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WPDE-TV (Channel 15; FLORENCE, SC; Owner: GRAND STRAND COMMUNICATIONS)
- WWMB (Channel 21; FLORENCE, SC; Owner: ATLANTIC MEDIA GROUP, INC.)
- WBTW (Channel 13; FLORENCE, SC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SO. CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WECT (Channel 6; WILMINGTON, NC; Owner: RAYCOM AMERICA, INC.)
- WFXB (Channel 43; MYRTLE BEACH, SC; Owner: GE MEDIA, INC.)
- WHMC (Channel 23; CONWAY, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- WUNJ-TV (Channel 39; WILMINGTON, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WUNU (Channel 31; LUMBERTON, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- W67DU (Channel 67; LUMBERTON, NC; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
- WLPS-LP (Channel 7; LUMBERTON/PEMBROKE, NC; Owner: BILLY RAY LOCKLEAR)
- WPEM-LP (Channel 47; LUMBERTON, NC; Owner: GERALD LOCKLEAR)
- WFPX (Channel 62; FAYETTEVILLE, NC; Owner: PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- W66DE (Channel 50; FLORENCE, SC; Owner: CAROLINA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING, INC.)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 4- Hwy 76 E 1 Mi E, Type: Tower, Structure height: 59.4 m, Overall height: 60.3 m
Registrant: Morgan Davis Mears & Associates, Fair Bluff, NC 28439, Phone: (910) 649-6300 - Michael R Graham, Fair Bluff, Nc, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.5 m, Overall height: 91.5 m, , Licensee ID: L00163232
Registrant: Htc Communications, 3480 Highway 701 North, Conway, SC 29528, Phone: (843) 365-2151, Email:
- Jerri L Janjua, 334 Main Street (Fair Bluff 196434144), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.5 m
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy #150 Gasareg, Alpharetta, GA 30009-7630, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Email:
- Scott Kirby, Fair Bluff Es, 685 Academy St., Type: Pole, Structure height: 42.7 m, Overall height: 42.7 m, , Licensee ID: L00764118
Registrant: Trillion Partners Inc., 9208 Waterford Centre Blvd., #150, Austin, TX 78758, Phone: (512) 334-4100, Email:
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 3- Fair Bluff Fire & Rescue, Call Sign: WAE768, Licensee ID: L00042809
Assigned Frequencies : 156.015 MHz
Grant Date: 07/18/2003, Expiration Date: 08/15/2013
Registrant: County Of Columbus, 608 N Thompson Street, Whiteville, NC 28472, Phone: (919) 640-6600 - City Hall, Call Sign: KWL626, Licensee ID: L00040737
Assigned Frequencies : 453.050 MHz
Grant Date: 01/21/1999, Expiration Date: 05/10/2004, Cancelation Date: 07/11/2004
Registrant: City Of Fair Bluff, Fair Bluff Municipal Bldg, Fair Bluff, NC 28439-0126 - 3 Mi Ese Of Fair Bluff On Sr 1356, Type: Tower, Structure height: 89 m, Call Sign: WPJT468
936.975 MHz, 937.912 MHz, 938.987 MHz, 935.387 MHz, 935.400 MHz, 935.412 MHz, 935.425 MHz, 935.450 MHz, 935.900 MHz, 935.912 MHz... (+27 more)
Grant Date: 10/25/2001, Expiration Date: 10/16/2011, Cancelation Date: 10/09/2003, Certifier: Edward O Quarles
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 1- STATION, Ncsr 1356 4.0 Mi S Of, Overall height: 89.3 m, Call Sign: WHI741
Assigned Frequencies : 6004.50 MHz, 6152.75 MHz
Grant Date: 05/19/2008, Expiration Date: 04/08/2018
Registrant: Carolina Power & Light Company D/B/A Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., 100 E. Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, Phone: (919) 546-2929, Fax: (919) 546-4339, Email:
FAA Registered Aircrafts: 6- Aircraft: BEECH V35B (Fixed wing single engine, Category: Land, Seats: 6, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 150 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 10BP , Serial Number: D-9533, Year manufactured: 1973, Airworthiness Date: 09/21/1973
Registrant (Corporation): Barnes Flying Service LLC, 803 Academy St, Fair Bluff, NC 28439 - Aircraft: CESSNA 182J (Fixed wing single engine, Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 119 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 3369F , Serial Number: 18257369, Year manufactured: 1966, Airworthiness Date: 06/28/1966
Registrant (Individual): Howell Strickland, 138 Air Park Dr, Fair Bluff, NC 28439 - Aircraft: CESSNA 172E (Fixed wing single engine, Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 105 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 3555S , Serial Number: 17250755, Year manufactured: 1963
Registrant (Corporation): Frank Horne Construction Inc, Po Box 338, Fair Bluff, NC 28439 - Aircraft: CESSNA 172E (Fixed wing single engine, Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 105 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 3699S , Serial Number: 17250899, Year manufactured: 1963, Airworthiness Date: 11/20/1963
Registrant (Co-Owned): William Howell Strickland, 6160 Hinson Crossroad, Fair Bluff, NC 28439, Other Owners: Ruth Strickland - Aircraft: CESSNA 172RG (Fixed wing single engine, Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 5097R , Serial Number: 172RG0039, Year manufactured: 1979, Airworthiness Date: 10/03/1979
Registrant (Corporation): Frank Horne Construction Inc, Po Box 338, Fair Bluff, NC 28439 - Aircraft: PIPER PA-23-250 (Fixed wing multi engine, Category: Land, Engines: 2, Seats: 6, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 150 mph), Engine: LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 6226Y , Serial Number: 27-3455, Year manufactured: 1966, Airworthiness Date: 09/01/1966
Registrant (Individual): Frank Horne, Po Box 338, Fair Bluff, NC 28439
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
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