Drinking water stations with addresses in Tryon and their reported violations in the past:
GREEN CREEK FAMILY LIFE CENTER (Population served: 150, Groundwater):
Past health violations:
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In FEB-2002, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Formal NOV issued (FEB-14-2002), St Public Notif requested (FEB-14-2002), St Compliance achieved (SEP-30-2002)
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In JAN-2002, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Formal NOV issued (JAN-30-2002), St Public Notif requested (JAN-30-2002), St Compliance achieved (SEP-30-2002)
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In DEC-2001, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Formal NOV issued (DEC-17-2001), St Public Notif requested (DEC-17-2001), St Compliance achieved (SEP-30-2002)
MILL CRK CH OF THE BRETHREN (Population served: 100, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- One regular monitoring violation
GREEN CRK MISSIONARY BAPTIST (Population served: 90, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- 2 routine major monitoring violations
- 2 regular monitoring violations
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2008:
| This town: |  14.3% | | Whole state: |  12.3% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2008:
| This town: | 0.9% | | Whole state: | 5.5% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Tryon, NC
81 people in nursing homes
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Tryon compared to North Carolina state average:
- Black race population percentage significantly above state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- House age above state average.
- Institutionalized population percentage above state average.
- Number of college students below state average.
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Banks with branches in Tryon (2009 data):
- Carolina First Bank: Tryon Branch at 936 South Trade Street, branch established on 2002-06-24. Info updated 2008-09-12: Bank assets: $13,568.3 mil, Deposits: $9,660.1 mil, headquarters in Greenville, SC, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 183 total offices, Holding Company: South Financial Group, Inc., The
- Bank of America, National Association: Tryon Main Branch at 69 Pacolet Street, branch established on 1965-03-23. Info updated 2008-11-07: Bank assets: $1,471,631.0 mil, Deposits: $954,677.6 mil, headquarters in Charlotte, NC, positive income, 6194 total offices, Holding Company: Bank Of America Corporation
- First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company: Tryon Branch at 570 South Trade Street, branch established on 1934-09-01. Info updated 2009-01-06: Bank assets: $13,862.8 mil, Deposits: $11,768.4 mil, headquarters in Raleigh, NC, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 343 total offices, Holding Company: First Citizens Bancshares, Inc.
School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Polk County North Carolina:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
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Religion statistics for Tryon
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 63.12%
| Here | | 63.1% |
| USA | | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations.
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | Catholic Church | United Methodist Church | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Episcopal Church |
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| Adherents | 59.7% | 10.5% | 6.9% | 5.5% | 5.3% |
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| Congregations | 50.0% | 2.0% | 14.0% | 6.0% | 6.0% |
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| Name | United Church of Christ | Seventh-Day Adventist Church | Church of the Brethren | Lutheran Church | Other |
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| Adherents | 5.0% | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.1% | 2.6% |
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| Congregations | 2.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | 14.0% |
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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 | $2,985 | $35,820 | 1 | $1,335 |
| Other Government Administration |
2 | $3,760 | $22,560 | 6 | $3,553 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
8 | $31,114 | $46,671 | 0 | $0 |
| Police - Other |
2 | $6,506 | $39,036 | 0 | $0 |
| Firefighters |
1 | $4,004 | $48,048 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
3 | $7,117 | $28,468 | 0 | $0 |
| Solid Waste Management |
3 | $8,349 | $33,396 | 0 | $0 |
| Sewerage |
9 | $29,378 | $39,171 | 0 | $0 |
| Parks and Recreation |
2 | $5,824 | $34,944 | 1 | $673 |
| Water Supply |
3 | $9,669 | $38,676 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
34 | $108,706 | $38,367 | 8 | $5,561 |
Tryon government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $725,000
Solid Waste Management: $161,000
Parks & Recreation: $63,000
All Other: $41,000
- Construction - Water Utilities: $196,000
Parks & Recreation: $61,000
- Current Operations - Police Protection: $588,000
Sewerage: $551,000
Central Staff Services: $343,000
Water Utilities: $236,000
Liquor Stores: $224,000
Regular Highways: $212,000
Solid Waste Management: $119,000
Fire Protection: $105,000
Parks & Recreation: $95,000
General - Other: $13,000
- General - Interest on Debt: $19,000
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - Health: $1,000
- Intergovernmental to State - General: $2,000
- Local Intergovernmental - General Support: $225,000
All Other: $16,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $250,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $360,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $290,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Water Utilities: $250,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $70,000
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $20,000
Interest Earnings: $8,000
Rents: $8,000
- Other Capital Outlay - Water Utilities: $16,000
Fire Protection: $15,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $105,000
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $311,000
Liquor Stores: $221,000
- State Intergovernmental - All Other: $121,000
Highways: $78,000
General Support: $49,000
- Tax - Property: $1,005,000
NEC: $18,000
Alcoholic Beverage Sales: $10,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $1,628,000
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $15,000
7.82% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($53,154 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 7.82% | | 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:
6.64% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($40,563 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.64% | | 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 Tryon:
- WJFJ (1160 AM; 10 kW; TRYON, NC; Owner: COLUMBUS BROADCAST CORPORATION, INC.)
- WLFJ (660 AM; daytime; 50 kW; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WCSZ (1070 AM; 50 kW; SANS SOUCI, SC; Owner: WHYZ RADIO, L.P.)
- WFGW (1010 AM; 50 kW; BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC; Owner: BLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORP.)
- WWOL (780 AM; daytime; 10 kW; FOREST CITY, NC; Owner: HOLLY SPRINGS BAPTIST BROADCASTING CO., INC.)
- WGCR (720 AM; daytime; 10 kW; PISGAH FOREST, NC; Owner: ANCHOR BAPTIST BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION)
- WTZQ (1600 AM; 5 kW; HENDERSONVILLE, NC; Owner: HOUSTON BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WKJV (1380 AM; 25 kW; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST OUTREACH MISSIONS)
- WBCU (1460 AM; 50 kW; UNION, SC)
- WSPA (910 AM; 4 kW; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WORD (950 AM; 5 kW; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WHKY (1290 AM; 50 kW; HICKORY, NC; Owner: LONG COMMUNICATIONS, LLC.)
- WWRN (1350 AM; 10 kW; BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC; Owner: BLACK MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING CORP.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Tryon:
- WSPA-FM (98.9 FM; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WFBC-FM (93.7 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WTPT (93.3 FM; FOREST CITY, NC; Owner: UPSTATE BROADCASTING, LLC)
- WMYI (102.5 FM; HENDERSONVILLE, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WESC-FM (92.5 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WMIT (106.9 FM; BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC; Owner: BLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WNCW (88.7 FM; SPINDALE, NC; Owner: ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
- WKSF (99.9 FM; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WMUU-FM (94.5 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: WMUU, INC.)
- WEPR (90.1 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- W220CD (91.9 FM; ENKA, NC; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.)
- WLFJ-FM (89.3 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: RADIO TRAINING NETWORK, INC.)
- W218AD (91.5 FM; BREVARD, NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WAGI-FM (105.3 FM; GAFFNEY, SC; Owner: GAFFNEY BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WSSL-FM (100.5 FM; GRAY COURT, SC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WBZT-FM (96.7 FM; MAULDIN, SC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WOLT (103.3 FM; GREER, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WQNQ (104.3 FM; OLD FORT, NC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- W237AR (95.3 FM; HAZELWOOD, ETC., NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WROQ (101.1 FM; ANDERSON, SC; Owner: OBC BROADCASTING, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Tryon:
- WSPA-TV (Channel 7; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SO. CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WASV-TV (Channel 62; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SOUTH CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WHNS (Channel 21; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: MEREDITH CORPORATION)
- W24BA (Channel 24; TRYON, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WYFF (Channel 4; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: WYFF HEARST-ARGYLE TELEVISION, INC.)
- WSQY-LP (Channel 66; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: ASHEVILLE MEDIA GROUP, LLC)
- WBTV (Channel 3; CHARLOTTE, NC; Owner: JEFFERSON-PILOT COMMUNICATIONS/WBTV, INC.)
- WCNC-TV (Channel 36; CHARLOTTE, NC; Owner: WCNC-TV, INC.)
- WRET-TV (Channel 49; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- WBSC-TV (Channel 40; ANDERSON, SC; Owner: ANDERSON (WFBC-TV) LICENSEE, INC.)
- W05AC (Channel 5; TRYON, ETC., NC; Owner: WLOS LICENSEE, LLC)
- WNTV (Channel 29; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- W31AZ (Channel 31; HENDERSONVILLE, NC; Owner: CAROLINA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING, INC.)
Tryon fatal accident list:
Aug 20, 1992 08:13 AM, Lockhart, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1
Jul 18, 1991 07:30 AM, New Mrkt, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 1
Oct 8, 1976 10:40 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 1
Total length: 3 meters (10ft)
Total average daily traffic: 790
Total average daily truck traffic: 47
Total future (year 2025) average daily traffic: 1,540
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 6- Vincent R Clawson, 35 Parcel, Type: Tower, Structure height: 84 m, Overall height: 88 m, , Licensee ID: L00000960
Registrant: Bellsouth Personal Communications, Inc., 1100 Peachtree St., Ne, Suite 810, Atlanta, GA 30309, Phone: (404) 249-0484 - Rocky Spurr Mountain, Type: Tower, Structure height: 46 m, Overall height: 55 m
Registrant: Morris Communications Inc, 355 Woodruff Rd Ste 302, Greenville, SC 29607, Phone: (864) 288-5992, Email:
- PETER M CONNOLLY, 1526 E Howard Street, Type: Tower, Structure height: 54.9 m, Overall height: 60.7 m, , Licensee ID: L00127162
Registrant: United States Cellular Corporation, 8410 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60631, Phone: (773) 399-8900, Email:
- Marilyn Mathney, 250 Feet W Of Sr 1129; 0.42 Mi Nnw Of Intersection Sr 1129 & Sr 1122, Type: 2ta1, Structure height: 74.4 m, Overall height: 75.3 m
Registrant: Graham Brock, Inc., St. Simons Island, GA 31522-7466, Phone: (912) 638-8028, Email:
- Marilyn Matheny, 250 Feet W Of Sr 1129; 0.42 Miles Nnw Of Intersection Of Sr 1129 And Sr 1122, Type: 2ta2, Structure height: 74.4 m, Overall height: 75.3 m
Registrant: Graham Brock, Inc., St. Simons Island, GA 31522-7466, Phone: (912) 638-8028, Email:
- George L Mahoney, Hogback Mountain, Type: Tower, Structure height: 55.2 m, Overall height: 78.2 m
Registrant: Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Pllc, 1200 New Hampshire Ave. Nw, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: (202) 776-2594, Email:
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 2 (See the full list of FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers in Tryon, NC)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 9 (See the full list of FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers)
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 4- TRYON PEAK, On Top Tryon Peak Mtn Near, Overall height: 30.5 m, Call Sign: KTM55, Licensee ID: L00008014
Assigned Frequencies : 6835.00 MHz, 6825.00 MHz, 6736.25 MHz
Grant Date: 09/16/2008, Expiration Date: 12/02/2018
Registrant: Norfolk Southern Railway Company, 1200 Peachtree St. Ne - Box 123, Atlanta, GA 30309, Phone: (404) 529-1493, Fax: (404) 527-2914, Email:
- STATION, Wspa Tv Tower Atop Hogback Mtn, Overall height: 18.3 m, Call Sign: WHH786
Assigned Frequencies : 2134.00 MHz
Grant Date: 06/05/1997, Expiration Date: 08/06/2002, Cancelation Date: 11/10/2002
Registrant: Phone: (864) 467-5349 - 116 North Trade Street, Overall height: 12.2 m, Call Sign: WLP923
Assigned Frequencies : 948.500 MHz
Grant Date: 02/15/1991, Expiration Date: 12/01/1995, Cancelation Date: 05/09/1997
Registrant: Radio Hendersonville D.B.A, Hendersonville, NC 28793 - 0.5 Miles Northeast Of, Overall height: 152.4 m, Call Sign: WLP942
Assigned Frequencies : 945.000 MHz
Grant Date: 02/15/1991, Expiration Date: 12/01/1995, Cancelation Date: 05/09/1997
Registrant: Radio Hendersonville, Hendersonville, NC 28793
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 46 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Tryon)
FAA Registered Aircrafts: 10 (See the full list of FAA Registered Aircrafts in Tryon)
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:- Fire: 44
- Hazardous Condition: 72
- Service Call: 4
- Good Intent Call: 17
See Full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Statistics for Tryon, NC
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- #32 (28782) on the list of "Top 101 zip codes with the largest percentage of Scotch-Irish first ancestries (pop 5,000+)"
- #72 (28782) on the list of "Top 101 zip codes with the largest percentage of European first ancestries (pop 5,000+)"
- #93 (28782) on the list of "Top 101 zip codes with the largest percentage of Latvian first ancestries (pop 5,000+)"
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