Albemarle Wedding

Albemarle is the county seat of Stanly County, North Carolina GR6. The population was 15,680 at the 2000 census. It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. "Whit" Whitley, Jr. (who was re-elected in 2005 after a twenty-eight year hiatus from the same position) and a seven-member City Council.

Albemarle is located at 352130N, 801143W (35.358360, -80.195262)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Albemarle has a total area of 40.8 km (15.8 mi). 40.7 km (15.7 mi) of it is land and 0.2 km (0.1 mi) of it (0.44%) is water.

The city is centered on the junction of U.S. Route 52 and the duplexed NC-24/27 in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina. Its topography is characterized by rolling, eroded hills, deciduous forests, and fast-running, narrow, shallow streams that feed the Yadkin/Pee Dee River Basin. Little Long Creek and Town Creek are the major non-seasonal streams through Albemarle; both flow generally southward into the Long and Big Bear Creek Sub-basin. [4]