The JAMESTOWN NC 27282 zip code consists of 14.4 square miles, sits between Greensboro and High Point in southern Guilford County, and has 15,712 residents. The Town of Jamestown is a 4.4-square-mile subset of JAMESTOWN 27282, with 3,712 residents.
Town of Jamestown residents and businesses pay property taxes to the Town of Jamestown AND Guilford County. JAMESTOWN 27282 residents and businesses pay property taxes to Guilford County AND either High Point, Greensboro, or no town/city. [More about Jamestown’s inequitable property tax valuations and the upcoming revaluation is HERE]
All residences and businesses in JAMESTOWN 27282 have a JAMESTOWN 27282 address, but JAMESTOWN 27282 residents and businesses may not vote in Town of Jamestown‘s mayor and town council elections.
Town of Jamestown residents’ water, trash and recycling services are provided by the Town of Jamestown. JAMESTOWN 27282 residents’ water, trash and recycling services are provided by City of High Point or Greensboro.
This map of High Point is from its 2045 Comprehensive Plan booklet. JAMESTOWN 27282 is roughly outlined in blue (we had to cut and paste here):
WITHIN the blue boundary lines of that purple southern tip of JAMESTOWN 27282, a lot of dirty stuff gets dumped into Deep River (WSIV-CA*) from: High Point-owned Seaboard Chemical dump, the methane gas-leaking High Point Landfill, the noncompliant High Point Eastside Wastewater Treatment Plant, Richland Creek (which carries industrial wastewater and stormwater from High Point‘s industries, High Point‘s Kersey Valley Landfill, GFL Construction and Demolition Landfill (aka “High Point WI Landfill”), and High Point‘s Jackson Lake Road (unlined) Landfill.
The City of High Point does little monitoring and enforcement of these polluters, and has no public alert system for wastewater spills and emission exceedances. Town of Jamestown does no monitoring, enforcement or public alerts/notices.
Once all that wastewater and leachate from High Point’s landfills and industrial dischargers lands in Deep River in JAMESTOWN 27282, it flows downstream for six miles to Randleman Lake in Randolph County, where it gets “treated” at the John Kime Treatment Plant and then gets piped back to the water-paying PTRWA customers of Guilford and Randolph counties.
PTRWA/Randleman Lake is plagued with high levels of 1,4-Dioxane, PFAS, PFOA, metals and volatile organic compounds and is trying to fund an upgrade of its water treatment system somewhere in the neighborhood of $120 million.
We are unaware of any efforts or initiatives by PTRWA, City of High Point, City of Greensboro, Guilford County, Randolph County or State of North Carolina to stop the ongoing industrial discharge and contamination at its source (Guilford County’s factories and landfills); or to make the dischargers and landfill owners – many of whom have been polluting and contaminating our surface waters and groundwater for decades – pay for the cleanup.
Jamestown got further divided in the October 2023 chop. Here’s a brief overview:
Hudson’s District 9 picked up the orange part of Guilford County (sitting on top of the grey area) shown below. Most of Jamestown is in the orange area:
Here’s the entire NEW DISTRICT 9 (in orange):
More results from the October 2023 chop:
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