Is there a place where Eastern NC ends and Coastal NC Starts?
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Damn. And here I thought you’d misspelled “coital”.
As a rule of thumb, coastal regions are those regions which are most directly influenced by the water on which they abut. Areas affected by high tides and storm surges certainly qualify, but also areas on rivers up to the river’s fall line (the line affected by the tide) come into play.
I’m not sure if NOAA has any firm definitions, and I couldn’t find any there at their website on my cursory check.
I’m in Piedmont NC: here’s a basic map of NC geographic regions.
And, applying Qadgop’s definition, here’s a map of NC river basins. NC is unique in it’s great, fast moving river basin drainage, which enabled it to become strong in the textile industry early on.
What are you looking for here; that might help to better answer the question.
You can also probably divide the state into regions based on the local barbeque.
Piedmont Blues is my favorite kind of blues music!
Is Greenville Coastal or Eastern?
Is Fayetteville Coastal or Eastern?
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OK, finally found a decent map deliniation, with a bit of search: this is a good point of reference.Raht 'Chyar. There ya go.
aluminum, I didn’t see your ? before my last answer, but you landed with the right person to answer blues questions; that was my earlier life as a blues documentarian.
So, for the blues: most active blues culture was in the Piedmont area. There is not what would be called a Coastal blues tradition in NC. There have been some coastal traditions, like the menhaden fishermen on the coast, and some notable blues musicians like Big Boy Henry, from Beaufort, and Guitar Shorty, from Belhaven, and Tarheel Slim, from Bailey, all coastal communities, but they tend to get lumped into what’s termed “Piedmont Blues”.
Greenville and Fayetteville would be considered as Piedmont.
Off the top of my head, the coastal artists might have more intense finger-picking styles than Delta Blues, but, Piedmont is known for that, too. It’s a small deliniation of one style of blues, and not immense enough to make it a definite subset, but, as blues afficionadoes LOVE to nitpick, the arguement could be up for articulation.
Greenville SC, maybe… but Greenville NC is well east of I-95 and sure appears at least “Eastern” if not “Coastal” based on the links others have provided here.
I have given much thought to North Carolina’s regional geography lately, and I’d put both of those cities as Eastern, not Coastal. Wilmington and Morehead City are coastal. Even New Bern is arguably Coastal, although it is on the Pamlico Sound, not the ocean. I don’t know of a definition to define the two, but when driving through Eastern NC to get to the coast, there is generally a time about 30-45 minutes before you get there that the landscape becomes noticeable “more coastal.”
Where we live is a couple of miles from the edge of one of the counties in the “Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments.” And a few miles from waterfalls on the Neuse and Little Rivers (I’m not sure about the Tar). So we’re technically right on the inner edge of the Coastal Plain – and probably at least 150 miles from the ocean in any of several directions.
As a former resident of NC (and of Greenville), I would consider it to be on the Coastal Plain, if not the Coastal Region. The Eastern third of NC is basically a flat plain, and is considered to be the coastal plain. Fayetteville could be considered part of this area, as well. I think the graphic at the top of this page shows it pretty well. I believe that Laurinburg (where I also used to live) is right on the border, as is Fayetteville.
This is the first time I’ve ever referenced my own post here, but, here ya go again. This is a map that separates the Coastal Plain region from the true coastal region. There are differences marked by local flora and soil type.
There is an actual geographic feature marking the change from Piedmont to Coastal Plain. It is called “The Fall Line” and it runs in a northeast-southwest line, passing close to Goldsboro and Raleigh to name two of the towns near it. I just got back from Lumberton, which is definitely in the coastal plain. And Fayetteville (not too far from Lumberton) is near the Fall Line, as it has a bit of geographic relief.
And I got to have some good eastern style BBQ while I was there. None of that corn-syrup-with-smoke-flavoring BBQ sauce that amateurs use.
Actually, that should be “Passing between Raleigh and Goldsboro.”