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Tryon, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 1760
Housing Units (2000): 985
Land area (2000): 1.842974 sq. miles (4.773280 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.842974 sq. miles (4.773280 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68580
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.208913 N, 82.238984 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28782
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tryon, NC
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Tryon, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 448
Housing Units (2000): 229
Land area (2000): 2.300653 sq. miles (5.958663 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007384 sq. miles (0.019124 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.308037 sq. miles (5.977787 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74550
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.872494 N, 96.963078 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74875
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tryon, OK
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Tryon may refer to:

Tryon (surname)

Tryon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon (1906–1976), British peer
  • Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925), American painter
  • Edward Tryon ( fl. 20th century), American physicist
  • George Tryon (1832–1893), British naval officer
  • George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (1871–1940), British peer
  • George Washington Tryon (1838–1888), Jr., American malacologist
  • James R. Tryon (1837–1912), American naval doctor and Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  • Justin Tryon (born 1984), active professional football player (Indianapolis Colts)
  • Rolla M. Tryon Jr. (1916–2001), American botanist
  • Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), British vegetarian
  • Thomas Tryon (architect) (1859–1920), American architect
  • Tom Tryon (1926–1991), American actor and author
  • Ty Tryon (born 1984), American professional golfer
  • Valerie Tryon (born 1934), Canadian pianist
  • William Tryon (1729–1788), British colonial governor in America

Usage examples of "tryon".

I never read a word about Governor Tryon, or North Carolina, or a place called Alamance.

I think Tryon only means to frighten the Regulators into good behavior.

While Lord Dunmore had been waging war against his former colony (and threatening Washingtons Mount Vernon estate), New Yorks ex-governor William Tryon, then living on a warship in New York harbor, was laying plans to blow up the city arsenals and murder Washington and his staff at his headquarters at Richmond Hill.

Arnold, in front, arranged his men between a ledge of rocks and a farmhouse and on the twenty-eighth met Tryon in a sharp engagement at Saugatuck Bridge.