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About Catawba, NC

Catawba is a small town of about 600 people in western North Carolina's foothills, 40 miles northwest of Charlotte via I-77 to I-40 west (Exit 135). Highway 10 connects it to Hickory and Newton for local trips. The area features rolling Piedmont terrain with distant mountain views and a humid subtropical climate. Catawba is home to the historic Bunker Hill Covered Bridge from 1895, one of the state's few remaining covered bridges spanning Lyle Creek.

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Catawba, NC is in United States, at 35.709, -81.067 - about 9 km east of Claremont, NC.

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The closest airport to Catawba, NC is Concord-Padgett Regional Airport, 77 km (about 1 h 6 min by car). Other airports nearby: Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

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