City flag City seal
City nickname: "The Southern Part of Heaven"
County	Orange County
Mayor	Kevin C. Foy
Area  - Total  - Water	51.3 km² (19.8 mi²) 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) 0.35%
Population  - City (2000)  - Metropolitan  - Density	48,715 1,079,873 952.4/km² (2,466.0/mi²)
Time zone	Eastern: UTC-5
ci.chapel-hill.nc.us (http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us)

Chapel Hill is a town located in North Carolina. It is the home of the University of North Carolina (UNC), the oldest state university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715. It is located in the southeast corner of Orange County, with municipal boundaries extending slightly into Durham County to the east and Chatham County to the south. A flag is a piece of cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually intended for signaling or identification. ... Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Nick is short for Nicholas). ... Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ... Orange County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the unit of measure. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education and the oldest public university in the United States. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Orange County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... Durham County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... Chatham County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ...

Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of the Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Since the early 1980s, Cary, near Raleigh, has grown to be more than twice the size of Chapel Hill. Durham is a city located in Durham County, North Carolina. ... Downtown Raleigh as seen from US 401 on the southwest side. ... The Research Triangle, commonly referred to as the Triangle, is a region in the piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill and the major research universities of North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Cary is a city located in Wake County, North Carolina. ...

Geography

Chapel Hill is coterminous to the west with the town of Carrboro, and to the east with the city of Durham. Carrboro is a town located in Orange County, North Carolina. ... Durham is a city located in Durham County, North Carolina. ...

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 51.3 km² (19.8 mi²). 51.2 km² (19.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.35% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the unit of measure. ...

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 48,715 people, 17,808 households, and 8,138 families residing in the town. The population density is 952.4/km² (2,466.0/mi²). There are 18,976 housing units at an average density of 371.0/km² (960.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 77.95% White, 11.42% Black or African American, 0.42% Native American, 7.18% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.16% from other races, and 1.85% from two or more races. 3.21% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... Shortcut: {{GR|#}} {{Cite:GR|#}} The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize US citizens, permanent residents and temporary immigrants, whose background hail either from the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America or relating to a Spanish-speaking culture. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

There are 17,808 households out of which 22.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.2% are married couples living together, 7.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 54.3% are non-families. 31.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.22 and the average family size is 2.88. Marriage is a relationship and bond, most commonly between a man and a woman, that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

In the town the population is spread out with 15.1% under the age of 18, 37.1% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 15.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 24 years. For every 100 females there are 82.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 78.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town is $39,140, and the median income for a family is $73,483. Males have a median income of $50,258 versus $32,917 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,133. 21.6% of the population and 6.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 8.6% of those under the age of 18 and 5.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The per capita income for an area may be defined as the total personal income in an area, divided by the number of people in that area. ... The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Culture

As is typical of college towns, Chapel Hill has historically tended to be politically liberal. It is recognized for the quality of its school system, which it shares with Carrboro. (However, many African American families argue that the system does not serve their children particularly well, as compared with the rest of the state.) In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ...

There is a music scene, which the town again shares with Carrboro. The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Superchunk, and Ben Folds are among the notable musical acts whose careers began in Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill has also been a center for the modern revival of old-time music with such bands as the Hollow Rock String band, the Fuzzy Mountain String band and the acclaimed Red Clay Ramblers. Squirrel Nut Zippers poster Squirrel Nut Zippers is a U.S. band formed in 1993 as a tongue-in-cheek salute to 1920s and 1930s big band swing music. ... Superchunk is an indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ... Ben Folds Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter. ... Old-time music, a traditional style of American music, has roots in Irish, Scottish and African folk music. ...

The Morehead Planetarium was, when it opened in 1949, one of only a handful of planetariums in the nation, and it has remained an important town landmark. During the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, astronauts were trained there. The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... Description Role: Orbital spaceflight Crew: one, pilot Dimensions Height: 11. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ...

Since the late 50s, UNC has been very successful at college basketball, and an obsession with the sport has been one of the most distinctive features of the town's culture, fueled by the rivalry among the area's three teams: Duke's Blue Devils, UNC's Tar Heels, and NC State's Wolfpack. More recently, the town has received regional notice as the site of a large, annual, impromptu Halloween street party, with an attendance regularly over 70,000. Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Duke University is a private university located in Durham, North Carolina in the United States. ... North Carolina State University Seal North Carolina State University is an institution of higher learning located in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... A jack-o-lantern Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. ...

Chapel Hill was originally home to the Carolina Courage team in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team moved to Cary shortly before WUSA rolled up it's carpets and went out of business in 2004. The Carolina Courage is a professional soccer team that played in the Womens United Soccer Association. ... The Womens United Soccer Association formed in 2001 as a soccer league for women in the United States. ...

The town has also become one of the largest centers of improvisational comedy in the country, behind Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles. Improvisational comedy (also called improv or impro) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...

History

Chapel Hill, or at least the town center, indeed sits atop a hill--originally called New Hope Chapel Hill after the chapel once located there. The Carolina Inn now occupies the site of the original chapel. The town was founded to serve the University of North Carolina and grew up around it.

In 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the country to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee. Lee served from 1969 until 1975 and, among other things, helped establish the town's bus system. Some 30 years later, in 2002, legislation was passed to make the local buses free of charge to residents and visitors alike. Free rides boosted ridership from roughly 4,000 to 25,000 daily passengers. The rationale for this was many fold: 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... On May 6, 1969 Howard Lee was elected mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina through campaign support of a large, and mostly African American civil rights coalition. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

• ever-diminishing availability of downtown and university automobile parking due to a constant stream of building and an exploding student population,
• more riders mean more federal transportation funds,
• pollution control
• increasing the fees for on-campus parking up to $1000 per year (for those making over $100,000), thus raising more money for university. This also makes it more desirable to use the bus service.

Fare-free bus funding came from a 2001 student fee increase of $16 per year, new federal funds made available to the town by pooling its funding with regional transportation services, and increased funding from the university for routes serving the university.

In the latter part of the 20th century, the town grew considerably and became wealthier, with a higher proportion of its residents working at jobs not related to the university.

External links

• Official Town Website (http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/).
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.unc.edu).
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