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Wake Forest, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 12588
Housing Units (2000): 5091
Land area (2000): 7.797536 sq. miles (20.195524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.102896 sq. miles (0.266500 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.900432 sq. miles (20.462024 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70540
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.973289 N, 78.518789 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27587
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wake Forest

Wake Forest may refer to:

  • Wake Forest, North Carolina, a town near Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest University, a university founded in the above town and now located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest, name of the plantation owned by Calvin Jones (physician) that became the first home of Wake Forest University
  • Wake Forest Demon Deacons, athletic teams from Wake Forest University

Usage examples of "wake forest".

A minute or two later, four guys on spring break from Wake Forest University came in, then a lone young hiker who proved to be our acquaintance Jonathan, and finally a couple of bearded middle-aged guys.

I was finishing my senior year at Wake Forest, so I heard about it by phone.

Most important of all, I learned that Palmer was single, twenty-seven, a Wake Forest biology grad currently employed with the U.