White Plains, NC

White Plains is a Surry County census-designated place in the foothill country around Mount Airy, with a 27031 mailing address and Dobson as the county-seat reference. It has the scale of a rural community rather than an incorporated town: county roads, church grounds, farms, and nearby Mount Airy do more of the orienting than a municipal downtown. Surry County’s larger map runs from Dobson and Mount Airy toward the Virginia line, with White Plains sitting among those scattered communities.

White Plains Baptist Church and its cemetery give the place a memorable historical marker. Eng and Chang Bunker, the conjoined twins billed in the nineteenth century as the “Siamese Twins,” are buried there; after their touring years they lived in the Mount Airy area. The story sits alongside the older Surry County landscape of farms, foothill roads, and small communities spread between Dobson and Mount Airy. Put White Plains on the county map as a named rural pocket with an unusually recognizable cemetery, then add the regional connection to the Mount Airy micropolitan area.