Crutchfield, North Carolina

Crutchfield is a small unincorporated community along the Yadkin River in the Marsh Township of Surry County, North Carolina (Powell 1968, p. 129).

Overview

The community, situated across the Yadkin River just north of Boonville was a stop on the former Southern Railway, now used by the Yadkin Valley Railroad.

The community is named for Charlie Crutchfield, a worker who died during the construction of a railroad trestle bridge in the area. Crutchfield, who had no relatives, was buried on the Yadkin County side of the river.^[1]

References

• Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1 

Municipalities and communities of Surry County, North Carolina, United States
County seat: Dobson
City	Mount Airy
Towns	Dobson Elkin‡ Pilot Mountain
CDPs	Flat Rock Lowgap Toast White Plains
Unincorporated communities	Albion Ararat Ash Hill Bannertown Blackwater Blevins Store Boones Hill Bottom Burch Cedar Hill Combstown Copeland Crooked Oak Crutchfield Devotion Fairview Franklin Hills Grove Holly Springs Indian Grove Jenkinstown Ladonia Level Cross Little Richmond Long Hill Mount Herman Mountain Park Mulberry New Hope Oak Grove Pine Hill Pine Ridge Poplar Springs Red Brush Rockford Round Peak Salem Salem Fork Sheltontown Shoals Siloam Slate Mountain State Road Stony Knoll Thurmond Turkey Ford Union Cross Union Hill Westfield‡ White Sulphur Springs Woodville Zephyr
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 36°16′16″N 80°43′23″W / 36.271°N 80.723°W / 36.271; -80.723