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Stoneville is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. Stoneville is part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area of the Piedmont Triad. On March 20, 1998, an EF-3 tornado touched down in neighboring Madison and Mayodan after the system had crossed into Rockingham County from Stokes County. Then, it strengthened into an EF-3 as it crossed Route 220 as it followed the train tracks to downtown Stoneville.

Stoneville town overview:
Name:	Stoneville town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	North Carolina
County:	Rockingham County
Elevation:	830 ft (253 m)
Total Area:	1.43 sq mi (3.70 km²)
Land Area:	1.43 sq mi (3.70 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	1,308
Population Density:	914.69/sq mi (353.15/km²)
ZIP code:	27048
Area code:	336
FIPS code:	3765100
GNISfeature ID:	0995543

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History

Settlers came to the ridge between the Mayo and Dan rivers in the northwest Piedmont region in the early 1800s. In 1827, the Deep Springs Plantation was built for James Madison Scales and his wife Elizabeth Lesuer in what is now Stoneville. In 1843 the R.H. Lewis Tobacco company was established in the south side of the land that was to become the town of Stoneville. In the late 1850s, brothers Thomas and Pinkney Stone bought land in the area. On March 5, 1877, the town was officially incorporated. A natural stop on the Norfolk-Western rail line, Stoneville became the trade hub for the surrounding localities and profited off of tobacco, cotton and grist-milling industries.

On March 20, 1998, Stoneville was struck by an F3 tornado. It caused severe damage to commercial structures in the town’s main business district along Henry Street, destroyed the railway depot, and killed one person in the town, an elementary school teacher and dancer named Beth Mitchell. Several buildings in the downtown were completely removed, and most cleanup and repair work was done within a year. The town later built Friendship Park and painted a mural at the site of a destroyed store to commemorate the victim killed in the town and a farmer killed further west in the county.