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 property tax valuations is HERE]
All residences and businesses in JAMESTOWN 27282 have a JAMESTOWN 27282 address, but not all JAMESTOWN 27282 residents and businesses can vote in the Town of Jamestown‘s mayoral and council elections.
For Town of Jamestown residents, and for some of Jamestown’s extraterritorial jurisdiction residents, water, trash and recycling services are provided by the Town of Jamestown.
Most of JAMESTOWN 27282 residents’ water, trash and recycling services are provided by City of High Point or Greensboro.
This map is from High Point’s 2045 Comprehensive Plan. 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 pollutants flow into Deep River (WSIV-CA*) from:
High Point-owned Seaboard Chemical dump and High Point Landfill, High Point Eastside Wastewater Treatment Plant, Richland Creek (which carries industrial wastewater from High Point‘s industries, High Point‘s Kersey Valley Landfill, GFL Construction and Demolition Landfill, and High Point‘s Jackson Lake Road (unlined) Landfill.
The City of High Point does little monitoring and enforcement of these polluters, and Jamestown residents receive no public alerts or public notices for matters pertaining to these sites and facilities.
The runoff and outflows from Eastside, the landfills and industrial facilities end up in in Deep River in JAMESTOWN 27282, then flow downstream for five miles to Randleman Lake in Randolph County, where it gets treated at the John Kime Treatment Plant and gets piped back to the water-paying PTRWA customers of Guilford and Randolph counties.
Randleman Lake is plagued with high levels of 1,4-Dioxane, PFAS, PFOA, metals and volatile organic compounds and PTRWA is trying to fund an upgrade of its water treatment system.
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 their sources or to make the polluters, dischargers and landfill owners pay for the cleanup.
Jamestown 27282 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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