Customer service is available 24 hours a day. The town plans to begin pumping water to some customers in spring 2001. Although not intended as a compliment, that's how many Stokesdale residents took it. The town tucked in the northwest corner of Guilford County still has that close-knit feel. Its Main Street boasts a compact business district of brick-fronted shops, including a hardware store, a boutique selling handmade soaps and the Town Hall.
Motorists share the road with tractors and other farming equipment.
Stokesdale was once known as Green Pond, after a swampy pond near Ellisboro Road and N.C. 65. It was renamed Stokesdale in 1886, apparently after a railroad employee. The town incorporated for the first time in 1907 but went bankrupt during the Depression and became inactive. The state revoked the community's charter in 1971. Residents voted to incorporate again in 1989.