North Carolina Dead Animal Removal Service Areas
North Carolina Dead Animal Removal routes dead animal removal requests to independent operators by ZIP code. Each location page documents the local pickup ordinance, road jurisdiction, and the species most frequently called in for that metro.
North Carolina Metros Documented Here
Raleigh, NC
Wake, metro pop ~2,100,000
Research Triangle (Wake/Durham/Orange counties). Wake County has FIVE separate animal control agencies (Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Holly Springs each run their own; Wake County Animal β¦
Raleigh details βDurham, NC
Durham, metro pop ~660,000
Durham metro (Durham/Orange counties). Duke Forest + Eno River State Park + the American Tobacco Trail corridor push deer, raccoon, and opossum into in-town neighborhoods. Older hoβ¦
Durham details βGreensboro, NC
Guilford, metro pop ~790,000
Greensboro / Guilford County, eastern Piedmont Triad. Greensboro's watershed lake system (Lake Brandt, Lake Townsend, Lake Higgins) plus the Bog Garden / Guilford Courthouse NMP grβ¦
Greensboro details βWinston-Salem, NC
Forsyth, metro pop ~700,000
Winston-Salem / Forsyth County, western Triad. Salem Creek + Muddy Creek corridors and the Yadkin River western edge. Older neighborhoods (West End, Ardmore, Buena Vista) have the β¦
Winston-Salem details βAsheville, NC
Buncombe, metro pop ~475,000
Asheville / Buncombe County, Blue Ridge mountains. This is the state's highest black-bear-conflict area, which makes the NCWRC black bear carcass-reporting line (866-318-2401) a paβ¦
Asheville details βFayetteville, NC
Cumberland, metro pop ~525,000
Fayetteville / Cumberland County, Sandhills. Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty) adjacency means an unusually high share of rental + military-transient housing β landlords and property managβ¦
Fayetteville details βWilmington, NC
New Hanover, metro pop ~300,000
Wilmington / New Hanover County, Cape Fear coastal. Vented crawlspaces are near-universal in coastal NC construction, and the humid subtropical climate accelerates decomposition β β¦
Wilmington details βCharlotte, NC
Mecklenburg, metro pop ~2,800,000
Charlotte metro (Mecklenburg + Union/Cabarrus/Gaston/Iredell), NC's largest at ~2.8M. Catawba River / Lake Norman / Lake Wylie shoreline plus the McDowell and Latta Nature Preserveβ¦
Charlotte details βHigh Point, NC
Guilford, metro pop ~114,000
High Point / Guilford County (city also reaches Davidson, Forsyth and Randolph). The city collects dead household pets under 100 pounds free, bagged in the cart or scheduled througβ¦
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