Linville, NC

Linville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 283 residents. Centered just south of US 221 and NC 105, the community is known as a summer mountain resort and host of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, the largest modern Highland games events in North Carolina. The community—at times known as Clay or Porcelain—was founded in 1883 and designed by Samuel T. Linville has four country clubs in the area: Grandfather Golf and Country Club, Linville Land Harbor Golf Club, Linville Golf Club and Linville Ridge; all open late spring to early fall. Adjacent to Linville is Grandfather Mountain, best known for its mile-high swinging bridge, and the Blue Ridge Parkway.

A newcomer can read Linville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Linville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Kelsey of Kansas, and named for William and John Linville, who were killed by Cherokees in 1766. Linville is located in eastern Avery County in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The community is surrounded on all sides by mountains, these are: Grandmother Mountain, Flat Rock, Pixie Mountain, Moore Mountain, Brier Knob and Grandfather Mountain.