Sunbury, NC

Sunbury is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Gates County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 276 residents. Sunbury is located at the junction of U.S. Route 158 and North Carolina Highway 32, 10 miles east-northeast of Gatesville, the Gates County seat. Sunbury High School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Sunbury's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider North Carolina setting. The local scoop is how Sunbury's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.