Flowers, North Carolina

Coordinates: 35°39′14″N 78°20′42″W / 35.65389°N 78.34500°W / 35.65389; -78.34500 Flowers is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, west of Jordan, and southeast of Archer Lodge. It lies at an elevation of 289 feet (88 m). It is named for Joshua Percy Flowers, who owned much of the property in the area.

While the borders of the community are not well defined, the intersection of Buffalo Road and North Carolina Highway 42, known as "Flowers Crossroads", is generally considered the center of the community. Flowers Plantation is a large housing development in the unincorporated community, that was voted 2013 and 2014 NC Community of the Year by the North Carolina Home Builders Association.^[1]

References

↑ "Flowers Plantation named 2014 Community of the Year". Flowers Plantation website. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flowers, North Carolina

Municipalities and communities of Johnston County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Smithfield

Towns	Archer Lodge Benson Clayton‡ Four Oaks Kenly‡ Micro Pine Level Princeton Selma Smithfield Wilson's Mills

Unincorporated communities	Cleveland Emit Flowers Grabtown Hocutts Crossroads Jordan McGee Crossroads Peacocks Crossroads Powhatan Stancils Chapel West Smithfield

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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