Sec. 2.1 CORPORATE LIMITS.
   (A)   Beginning on a concrete marker being located at the point where the right-of-way of the Southern Railroad intersects the western city limits line of the present Town of Spindale city limits: runs thence with the eastern edge of the right-of-way of Southern Railroad in a northerly direction 4100 feet to the point in the center of Sparks Street; runs thence with the center of Sparks Street south 85 east 32 feet, north 5 west 200 feet, north 9 west 50 feet, north 12 east 25 feet, north 34 east 25 feet, north 53 east 25 feet, north 66 east 25 feet, north 75 east 25 feet, north 83 east 50 feet and north 87 east 25 feet; thence continuing with the center of said street, north 87 east 1200 feet and due east 120 feet to a concrete marker at a fence; runs thence with the fence, south 74 east 1160 feet to a point in the center of Reynolds Creek; runs thence with the center of Reynold’s Creek in a northeasterly direction 5920 feet to a point in the center of the Whiteside Road; runs thence with the center of the Whiteside Road, in an easterly direction 496 feet to a point in the center of the bridge on the Whiteside Road crossing Holland’s Creek; runs thence with Holland’s Creek in a southeasterly direction 2985 feet to a point in the center of the bridge over Holland’s Creek on the Old Ball Park Road, also known as State Road Number 1547; thence continuing with Holland’s Creek in an easterly direction 4197 feet to a point in the center of Holland’s Creek, said point being located at a point where said Holland’s Creek is intersected by the center of the Duke Power high transmission line; runs thence with the center of said transmission line south 12 east 1200 feet to a steel tower on said power line the same lying just south of the road which leads from the Ledbetter Mill Road to the Spindale Disposal Plant; thence continuing with the Duke Power right-of-way, south 25 east 2450 feet to an iron pin in the center of an unnumbered state road the same being the road which leads from Ledbetter Mill Road to the Bristol-Martin Subdivision; thence with the center of said road, south 59 west 760 feet to a point in the said road, same being evidenced by an iron pin offset in the south side of said road, same being the corner of the Martin-Bristol property; runs thence south 12-1/2 east 4600 feet to an iron pin at the old white oak corner of the J. C. Cowan property; runs thence with the wire fence south 4 west 1350 feet to a point in the center of U.S. Highway Number 74, the same being located at the point where the center of Highway Number 74 is intersected by the road which leads from the Rutherford County Board of Education and the North Carolina Armory; runs thence with the center of said road, south 4 west 590 feet to a point in the center of said road; runs thence from said point north 85 west with the line of the Rutherford County Fair Ground Property and the property of the Callahan-Koon Manufacturing Company and with the line of the Duke Power Company transmission line 1270 feet to a point in the center of the road which leads from U.S. Highway Number 74 past the Callahan-Koon Manufacturing Company Office in a southerly direction 1855 feet to a point where said road intersects the Withrow Road; runs thence from the center of said Withrow Road south 9 west 1850 feet to a point lying 150 feet south of the new U.S. Highway 74 by-pass around Spindale and Forest City; runs thence north 75-1/2 west 2415 feet to a point in the right-of-way of said highway at the point where said right-of-way intersects the center of Oakland Road; thence continuing 150 feet to the center of said highway in a westerly direction 5682 feet to a point lying 150 feet south of the intersection of the Oak Street Extension and U.S. Highway 74; runs thence in a westerly direction and 150 feet from the center of Oak Street Extension also known as State Road Number 2201, 2036 feet to the point where said line intersects Stonecutter Creek; thence with the center of Stonecutter Creek as it meanders under said road and in a northwesterly direction 330 feet to a point; runs thence in a southwesterly direction with center of said creek 494 feet to a point where said creek intersects the branch which leads from the Town of Spindale to the west of the Ellington Heights Subdivision; runs thence with the said branch in a northerly direction 4512 feet to a point lying 150 feet southwest of the center of the Spindale By-Pass; runs thence 150 feet from center of said by-pass in a northerly direction 2400 feet to a concrete monument in the city limits of the Town of Rutherfordton; thence with the city limits of the Town of Rutherfordton, south 72 east 250 feet to a concrete monument; runs thence with the Rutherfordton City Limits north 45 east 1150 feet to the point and place of beginning.
(Session Laws of 1975, Chapter 378 § 2.1)
   (B)   Description of annexation: Beginning at an iron pin in the center line of paved State Road 1553, said iron pin being the point where the center line of a Duke Power high voltage transmission line intersects the center line of said road and also being in the old city limits line; and running thence N65-18-50E 202.241 to a concrete monument on the North side of Springdale Drive; thence S87-06-40E 81.79' to another concrete monument; thence N03-12E 102.00' to an existing iron pin; thence N88-12-50E 230.39* to an existing iron pin, thence NO7-16-30E 140.191 to an existing iron pin; thence S81-26-20E 268.46' to an existing iron pin; S81-06E 99.23' to an existing iron pin; thence S80-24E 99.41 to an existing iron pin; thence S78-32-30E 99.49' to a new iron pin; thence S81-01-30E 99.45' to an existing iron pin; thence SO3-12-40W 169.98' to an existing iron pin; thence S 45-29-20W 89.48' to a concrete monument; thence SO4-58-30W 175.07' to a new iron pin; thence S45-20W 184.96' to an existing iron pin; thence S54-57W 175.00' to a concrete monument on the east side of Springdale Drive, thence S54-57W 60.00' to a concrete monument on the west side of Springdale Drive; thence S54-57W 175.001 to an existing iron pin, thence N34-30-50W 561.381 to an existing iron pin; thence S61-15-40W 1020.91' to an existing iron pin in the old city limits line; thence N16-34W 226.45' with the old city limits line to the center line of St Rd. 1553 passing an iron pin in line 26.87' from the center line of said road; thence with the center line of St Rd. 1553 and the old city limits line the following seven (7) calls: (1) N70-37-40E 95.78' (2) N66-56-20E 131.62 (3) N63-04-20E 151.12' (4) N60-42-50E 93.04' (5) N57-4 6-10E 96.25' (6) N54-13E 99.03' (7) N50-36-20E 87.97' to the point of BEGINNING containing 16.45 Acres more or less.
   (C)   Description of annexation: Beginning in the center of State Road Number 1538, also called Whiteside Road approximately 0.6 miles Northeast of its intersection with U.S. Highway 74-Bypass, and running thence with the center line of said Whiteside Road the following four (4) courses and distances : (1) North 66 degrees 56 minutes 10 seconds East - 96.89 feet; (2) North 59 degrees 13 minutes 20 seconds East - 65.93 feet; (3) North 49 degrees 49 minutes 10 seconds East - 87.41 feet; and (4) North 41 degress 39 minutes 20 seconds East - 361.33 feet; thence leaving the road South 12 degrees 50 minutes West - 255.34 feet to an iron pin; thence South 42 degrees 38 minutes 10 seconds East - 756.12 feet to an iron pin; thence South 74 degrees 32 minutes 10 seconds East - 943.94 feet to an iron pin; thence South 28 degrees 17 minutes 30 seconds West - 166.94 feet to an iron pin on the northwest bank of a branch; thence South 28 degrees 17 minutes 50 seconds West - 23.83 feet to the center of the branch the center line of which is the existing town limits of Spindale; thence with said branch the following seventeen (17) courses and distances: (1) North 72 degrees 56 minutes 40 seconds West - 19.64 feet; (2) South 44 degrees 42 minutes 50 seconds West - 40.80 feet; (3) South 24 degrees 55 minutes 10 seconds West - 192.64 feet; (4) South 02 degrees 06 minutes 50 seconds West - 33.52 feet; (5) thence South 35 degrees 44 minutes 50 seconds East - 66.62 feet; (6) South 05 degrees 41 minutes West - 28.48 feet; (7) North 89 degrees 33 minutes 20 seconds West - 88.75 feet (8) North 12 degrees 14 minutes 50 seconds West - 39.77 feet; (9) South 51 degrees 23 minutes 30 seconds West -88.47 feet (10) South 25 degrees 52 minutes East - 38.27 feet; (11) South 44 degrees 17 minutes 20 seconds West - 47.11 feet; (12) South 84 degrees 56 minutes 20 seconds West - 55.61 feet; (13) North 84 degrees 46 minutes 20 seconds West - 40.51 feet; (14) North 36 degrees 43 minutes West - 28.81 feet; (15) South 68 degrees 25 minutes 20 seconds West - 41.74 feet (16) South 15 degrees 32 minutes 10 seconds West - 40.92 feet; and (17) South 12 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds East - 39.33 feet; thence leaving the creek North 73 degrees 06 minutes 20 seconds West - 1174.95 feet to an iron pin; thence North 86 degrees 51 minutes 20 seconds West - 181.42 feet; thence North 09 degrees 36 minutes 30 seconds West - 326.61 feet to an iron pin; thence North 73 degrees 42 minutes 30 seconds East - 202.00 feet to an iron pin; thence North 38 degrees 04 minutes 20 seconds East - 89.14 feet to an iron pin; thence North 18 degrees 30 minutes West - 317.77 feet to an iron pin; thence North 23 degrees 38 minutes 30 seconds West - 212.00 feet to the BEGINNING containing 32.79 Acres.
(Ord. passed 1-16-1984)
   (D)   Description of annexation: Beginning at a North Carolina State Highway Commission right-of-way concrete monument on the southeast side of the intersection of Oakland Road (N.C. State Road 2169) and U.S. Highway 74-Bypass at the intersection of the rights-of-way of said roads. Said monument also being South 10 degrees 52 minutes 25 seconds East a distance of 232.67 feet from a N.C.G.S. marker designated as “Oakland” and also being on the existing town of Spindale city limits line. Running thence from said beg inning point with the existing city limits line and the southern right-of-way line for U.S. Highway 74-Bypass North 58 degrees 37 minutes 08 seconds East a distance of 139.36 feet to another highway right-of-way marker; thence continuing with the existing city limits and said right-of-way North 80 degrees 26 minutes 50 seconds East a distance of 19 8.69 feet to a point; thence with said right-of-way and city limits North 81 degrees 38 minutes 45 seconds East a distance of 29.04 feet to a new iron pin; thence leaving said right-of-way South 12 degrees 37 minutes 04 seconds West a distance of 277.57 feet to an old iron pin; thence South 12 degrees 37 minutes 04 seconds West a distance of 130.11 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 78 degrees 24 minutes 36 seconds West a distance of 190.06 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 12 degrees 37 minutes 24 seconds East a distance of 129.94 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 78 degrees 24 minutes 43 seconds West a distance of 135.13 feet to a new iron pin on the eastern right-of-way of Oakland Road; thence with the right-of-way of Oakland Road the following two calls; (1) North 14 degrees 16 minutes 38 seconds East a distance of 4.91 feet to a concrete monument; and (2) North 20 degrees 39 minutes 07 seconds East a distance of 97.44 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and containing 2.03 acres more or less.
(Ord. passed 8-5-1985)
   (E)   Description of annexation: Beginning at an iron pin on the east side of SR 2187 also known as Fairground Road; said pin lies South 87 degrees 21 minutes 21 seconds East, a distance 10.60 feet from a point in the center line of said SR 2187 which point is South 2 degrees 45 minutes 19 seconds West, a distance of 520.67 feet from a PK nail in the center of said road and Southern Railroad. Running thence South 87 degrees 21 minutes 21 seconds East, a distance of 465.66 feet to an existing iron pin; thence South 4 degrees 03 minutes 47 seconds West, a distance of 346.26 feet to an iron pin; thence North 80 degrees 16 minutes 9 seconds West, a distance of 465.41 feet to an iron pin on the east edge of the pavement of SR 2187; thence with the eastern margin of said SR 2187 North 3 degrees 35 minutes 23 seconds East, a distance of 288.78 feet to the point of BEGINNING and containing 3.38 acres more or less.
(Ord. passed 2-5-1990)
   (F)   Description of annexation: Beginning at a concrete monument on the northern right-of-way (R/W) line of U.S. Highway No. 74 By-Pass, thence along said R/W line N 76° 54' 41" W a distance of 384.07 ft. to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, thence N 76° 54' 41" W a distance of 200.32 ft. to a point, thence leaving said R/W N 07° 35' 19" E a distance of 728.35 ft. to a point, thence S 76° 54' 41" E a distance of 270.13 ft. to a point, thence S 13° 605' 19" W a distance of 523.60 ft. to a point, thence S 76° 13' 41" E a distance of 325.80 ft. to a point, thence S 03° 20' 30" E a distance of 20.92 ft. to a point, thence N 76° 13' 41" W a distance of 331.72 ft. to a point, thence S 13° 05' 19" W a distance of 181.40 ft. to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING.
(Ord. 2-91, passed 9-16-1991)
   (G)   Description of annexation:
      TRACT ONE: Beginning at a nail in the centerline of Withrow Road, said nail being the northeast corner of the herein described property, said nail being the northwest corner of the Alan T. Withrow property as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 456, Page 98, Rutherford County Registry, and running thence South 9 degrees 44 minutes 50 seconds West 192.24 feet to an iron pin; thence South 9 degrees 44 minutes 50 seconds West 542.72 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 84 degrees 23 minutes 49 seconds West 457.12 feet to a spike in the centerline of the paved road leading from Withrow Road (S.R. 2159) to the White Oaks Shopping Center; thence North 2 degrees 45 minutes 35 seconds East 494.58 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 89 degrees 28 minutes 22 seconds East 200.04 feet to an existing iron pin; thence South 88 degrees 11 minutes 36 seconds East 221.53 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 9 degrees 50 minutes 1 second East 200 feet to a nail in the centerline of Withrow Road (S.R. 2159); thence with the centerline of said road South 88 degrees 33 minutes 13 seconds East 100 feet to the BEGINNING containing 6.23 acres.
      TRACT TWO: Beginning at a concrete monument, said concrete monument lying in the western line of the Aeroquip Corporation as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 321, Page 602, Rutherford County Registry, said beginning point being the common northeasternmost corner of the tract hereinafter described and common southeasternmost corner of the 6.23 acre tract described in deed recorded in Deed Book 487, Page 43, Rutherford County Registry, and running thence from said beginning point North 84 degrees 23 minutes 49 seconds West 457.12 feet to a spike in the centerline of paved right of way running from Withrow Road (S.R. 2159) to the White Oaks Plaza; thence with the centerline of said paved right of way, South 8 degrees 16 minutes 36 seconds West 25.58 feet to a nail; thence South 10 degrees 13 minutes 16 seconds West 61.40 feet to a nail; thence South 16 degrees 31 minutes 7 seconds West 51.96 feet to a nail; thence South 18 degrees 5 minutes 17 seconds West 45.72 feet to a spike in the centerline; thence South 76 degrees 53 minutes 53 seconds East 443.60 feet to another iron pin at a power pole; thence North 13 degrees 6 minutes 7 seconds East 197.75 feet to an iron pin; thence South 76 degrees 53 minutes 53 seconds East 14.13 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 9 degrees 45 minutes 40 seconds East 46.21 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 2.166 acres.
(Ord. 3-91, passed 11-4-1991)
   (H)   Oakland.
(Ord. passed 12-31-1999)
   (I)   ICC.
(Ord. circa 2019)