Anson Drag Strip (Wadesboro)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Anson County Drag Strip
- Raced
- 1965-1970s
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Paved
- Location
- South side of Highway 74, just west of Anson High School
- People
- Walter G. Knotts, incorporator (1965)
- George Hinson, promoter (late 1960s)
- Elevation
- 319 ft (97 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.97768, -80.11390
Frank Spittle remembered a paved eighth-mile strip in Wadesboro. Walter G. Knotts of Wadesboro filed incorporation papers for Anson Drag Strip, Inc. on August 23, 1965, and George Hinson promoted it in the late 1960s. In 1971-72 it was called Anson County Drag Strip. Steve Hildreth placed it on the south side of Highway 74, just west of where Anson High School is now, and the strip shows up there on a 1969 aerial photo.
