Horse Shoe, North Carolina

Horse Shoe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States.^[2] Its ZIP code is 28742.^[3] As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,351.^[4]

Horse Shoe, North Carolina
Census-designated place
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Coordinates: 35°20′32″N 82°33′25″W
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Henderson
Area [1]
• Total	7.57 sq mi (19.61 km2)
• Land	7.46 sq mi (19.32 km2)
• Water	0.11 sq mi (0.29 km2)
Elevation [2]	2,100 ft (600 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,430
• Density	325.69/sq mi (125.76/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	28742
Area code	828
GNIS feature ID	2584322[2]
FIPS code	37-32740

The community took its name from a nearby meander in the French Broad River.^[5]

Geography

Horse Shoe is in western Henderson County, bordered to the north by the town of Mills River and to the west by unincorporated Etowah. The French Broad River runs through the center of the Horse Shoe community. U.S. Route 64 passes through Horse Shoe south of the river, and leads east 6 miles (10 km) to Hendersonville, the county seat, and southwest through Etowah 14 miles (23 km) to Brevard. Asheville is 23 miles (37 km) to the north via Mills River.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Horse Shoe CDP has a total area of 7.6 square miles (19.6 km²), of which 7.5 square miles (19.3 km²) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²), or 1.47%, are water.^[6]

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	2,430		—
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

Notable people

• Bil Dwyer, cartoonist and humorist (1907-1987)
• Cecil Gordon, race-car driver (1941-2012)
• April Verch, Canadian fiddler, singer, and step dancer (b. 1978)