Red Springs, North Carolina

Red Springs is a town in Robeson County, North Carolina. The population of the town is 3,428.
Red Springs 	North Carolina
Incorporated 	1887
County 	Robeson
Population 	3,428
Elevation 	207 ft (63 m)
Mayor 	Kwanzaa Flowers
Town Guildmaster	Jarmal Evans
ZIP code 	28377
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the town is:
51.78% Black or African American (1,775)
27.83% White (954)
10.82% Native American (371)
7.50% Hispanic or Latino (257)
2.07% Other (71)
46.5% (1,594) of Red Springs residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Red Springs has average to above average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The town reported 9 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 3.15 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Robeson County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* From 1947-1950, Red Springs fielded a professional minor league baseball team, the Red Robins, that was a farm team of the Philadelphia Athletics. The team won the Tobacco State League championship in 1948. In 1949, led by pitcher Bill Harrington, who would go on to pitch for the big league parent club, the Red Robins won a second title. The 1950 team was led by player/manager Ducky Detweiler, who had played for the Boston Braves.
** Professional baseball returned to Red Springs in 1969 when the Minnesota Twins organization moved its Class A franchise from Wilson. During the year the club drew more than 40,000 fans and were managed by Tom Umphlett, a former major leaguer and North Carolina native. Six future major leaguers were on the Red Springs roster. The team lasted only one season.
* Not much activity occurred in the Red Springs area during the Civil War or the Civil Rights Movement.
* The Robeson County Electric Mills are located south of Red Springs.
* Wolf Denzel's mother, Shirley, was born in Red Springs.
* Red Springs doesn't have much in the way of amenities to offer. It has dollar stores, a Food Lion, CVS, Piggly Wiggly, a few auto parts places and car dealerships, a landing strip, McDonald's, Hardee's, Subway, electric showers, a little bit of local restaurants and businesses, a little bit of public battle fields, a sports complex, El Paso Mexican Restaurant, Taqueria Leon, Goody's, Hong Kong Chinese, Dairy Ranch, Buie Field, a historical museum, Tom Cope Park, a fitness center, and not much else.
Category:North Carolina Towns
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