Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Information And Events

The Greensboro Coliseum is located 0.9 miles (1.4 km) down High Point Road.

The public schools in Greensboro are operated by Guilford County Schools.

Greensboro is served by Piedmont Triad International Airport, which also serves the nearby cities of High Point and Winston-Salem as well as the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region.

Greensboro is in the Eastern Time Zone.

Greensboro was established near the geographic center of Guilford County, on land that was "an unbroken forest with thick undergrowth of huckleberry bushes, that bore a finely flavored fruit"\.

There were about 50,032 mortgages in Greensboro in the year 2008 according to data from United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

List of sports teams from Greensboro:

• Carolina Monarchs

Sample list of people who were the mayor of Greensboro:

• Nancy B. Vaughan ( Current Mayor, from 03 Dec 2013 )
• Robbie Perkins ( Mayor, from Dec 2011 to Nov 2013 )

Sample list of tourist attractions in Greensboro:

• Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe
• Greensboro Coliseum Complex
• Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
• Greensboro Children's Museum
• Blandwood Mansion and Gardens
• NewBridge Bank Park
• Natural Science Center of Greensboro
• Triad Stage
• Carolina Theatre of Greensboro
• Weatherspoon Art Museum
• The Bog Garden
• Hagan Stone Park
• Grandover Resort & Conference Center
• Bur-Mil Park

When Union cavalry threatened Danville, Davis and his cabinet managed to escape by train and reassembled in Greensboro on April 11, 1865.

The unemployment rate of Greensboro was 6.12% in the year 2008.

The city of Greensboro was named for Major General Nathanael Greene, commander of the American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781.

Greensboro's official website is http://www.greensboro-nc.gov

There were 108,364 addresses in Greensboro in the year 2008 according to data from United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Greensboro's geo-coordinates are 36.08° N, 79.8194° W.

Sample list of newspapers published in Greensboro:

• News & Record
• Yes! Weekly

At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Greensboro were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura.

Sample list of famous events happened in Greensboro:

• Battle of Guilford Court House
• NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
• Wrecking Ball Tour
• Triad Jewish Film Festival

There were about 1,781 foreclosures in Greensboro in the year 2008 according to data from United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Sample list of famous people who were born in Greensboro:

• MacKenzie Mauzy ( Actor )
• Erskine Bowles ( Politician, Businessperson and Business Administration )
• Ann M. Livermore ( Businessperson )
• Jim Neal ( Politician, Financial adviser, Entrepreneur and Businessperson )
• John McLean ( Lawyer and Politician )
• Shannon Cochran ( Actor )
• Carolyn Maloney ( Politician )
• Howard Coble ( Lawyer and Politician )
• Ronald Perelman ( Businessperson, Investor and Financier )
• Robert Franklin Armfield ( Lawyer and Politician )
• O. Henry ( Writer )
• Donna Edmondson ( Nude Glamour Model and Accountant )
• Joey Cheek ( Speed Skater and Athlete )
• Eddie Pope ( Football player )
• Vince Evans ( American football player )
• Marques Douglas ( American football player )
• Ethan Albright ( American football player )
• Jeff Bostic ( American football player )
• Haywood Jeffires ( American football player )
• Ralph Cedric Murrow-Gore
• Conrad L. Raiford
• Samuel E. Anderson
• John Isner ( Tennis player and Athlete )
• Bob McAdoo ( Basketball player )
• Stan Lane ( Wrestler )
• Kristin Eubanks ( Wrestler )
• Thomas Berry
• Ansu Sesay ( Basketball player )
• Jack F. Matlock, Jr. ( Historian )
• Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush ( Journalist and Newscaster )
• Paris C. Dunning
• Lou Hudson
• Onzlee Ware ( Lawyer )
• Wes Ferrell ( Baseball player and Manager )
• Mike Elkins
• Lamont Burns
• Delton Hall ( American football player )
• Joe Bostic ( American football player )
• Dino Hackett ( American football player )
• Jeff Davis ( American football player )
• Jack Keenan ( American football player )
• Michael Brooks ( American football player )
• Jeff Varner
• Anita W. Addison ( Film Director, Television producer and Television Director )
• Curtis W. Fentress
• Kelly Wiglesworth ( Guide )
• Tom Alston ( Baseball player )
• James Duncan
• William Lindsay Osteen, Sr.
• John A. Houston

List of airports near Greensboro:

• Piedmont Triad International Airport

There were 92,084 households in Greensboro in the year 2008 according to data from United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In the early 1840s, Greensboro was selected by the state government at the request of then Governor Morehead (whose estate, Blandwood, is in Greensboro) for inclusion on a new railroad line.

The greensboro was considered to be the most affluent neighborhood, with large estates that were destroyed in the late 1980s for commercial development.

Population of Greensboro was 273,425 in the year 2011.

Greensboro is about 339.81 square kilometers with a population of 273,425 in the year 2011.

In 1985, a civil suit found five police officers and two other individuals liable for $350,000 in damages to be paid to the Greensboro Justice Fund.

Greensboro is located in Guilford County, North Carolina.

The greensboro is located at the intersection of three major interstate highways (Interstate 85, Interstate 40 and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina.