Wilkes County Wildfire Grows to 620 Acres; Avery and Smaller Wilkes Fire Nearly Contained Updated 4 p.m. Monday, March 30 The large Wilkes County wildfire continued to grow Monday afternoon, reaching 620 acres with 20 percent containment as of a 2:19 p.m. update — nearly doubling from the ...

🔥 4 PM update: Wilkes Co. fire now 620 acres (up from 350 this AM), 20% contained. Small Wilkes fire 90% contained. Elk Park/Avery 95-100% contained. Mitchell/Poplar holds at 80%. Burn ban in effect statewide. #WilkesCounty #HighCountryNC #WildFire #BurnBan wataugaonline.com/wilkes-count...

If #DrGates #FindingYourRoots told me that #LodowickMeriwetherHill #WilkesCounty #GA enslaved my ancestors, for even 1 day, I’d knock down, blow up or burn down anything they own still standing. I’d get my reparations in a pound of flesh or pound of destruction. #Do4Do
#WhoRTheCriminals

We had such a great evening celebrating NASA's Observe the Moon Night at Rendezvous Mountain State Park! Thank you to all those who helped set it up including Ranger Matheson and Mr. Shepherd. We hope to do it again soon! #astronomy #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #wilkescounty

Wilkes County Traveling and thinking about books and things

Today's travel blog took me through Wilkes County, NC, mostly in March (including the town of Boomer) but with a few from May. Next post I get to work on April - and adding new states!

#wilkescounty #nc #100counties #travel #blog #boomer #wilkesboro

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