The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHobgood is a town in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Hobgood had a population of 268. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 348 to 268 (-23%). Half of its homes were built before 1951.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hobgood yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Hobgood’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hobgood’s history is told.
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Hobgood, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Hobgood is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Hobgood has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Kehukee Primative Baptist Church in Scotland Neck, 5.6 miles away.
Hobgood and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.