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Ashe Post & Times · Sep 15, 2026

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WCNC · Jul 28, 2026

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Town in North Carolina, United States

1909Established

1,279Population

2.1 sq miArea

2,979 ftElevation

West Jefferson is a resort town in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,279 at the 2020 census. West Jefferson is a popular destination among tourists and retirees from Florida, as well as those from the lower elevations of the Carolinas and Georgia.

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ZIP code28694

Area code336

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Westwood ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 451 students Ashe County HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 767 students

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Wikimedia Commons · Map: DescriptionWest Jefferson.png This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation. Date (see file history) Source openstreetmap.org Creator OpenStreetMap contributors Permission(Reusing this file) OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License (details). Map tiles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC-BY-SA 2.0). This work contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The ODbL does not require any particular license for maps produced from ODbL data. Prior to 1 August 2020, map tiles produced by the OpenStreetMap Foundation were licensed under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 license. Maps produced by other people may be subject to other licences.Open Database LicenseODbLhttp://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/true This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0CC BY-SA 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 truetrue Georeferencing Georeference the map in Wikimaps Warper If inappropriate please set warp_status = skip to hide. · CC BY-SA 4.0

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