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Faro is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.[1]

Faro
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 35°30′42″N 77°50′38″W
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Wayne
Elevation [1]	37 m (121 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	919 & 984
GNIS feature ID	1010605[1]

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

In Faro—12 miles (19 km) north of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base—two hydrogen bombs dropped during the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash[2] as the aircraft broke up in flight.[3] The crash site is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Faro on Big Daddy's Road.[4]

Thermonuclear bomb resting in a field in Faro
Explosive ordnance disposal personnel work to recover the buried thermonuclear bomb that fell into a field in Faro

Notes

"Faro, North Carolina". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
"Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961 secret documents reveal". Telegraph (UK). Retrieved 2013-09-22.
Michael Mechanic (August 2013). "A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's Terrifying New Book on Nuclear Weapons". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
"Faro, North Carolina". Ibiblio. Retrieved 2013-09-22.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States
County seat: Goldsboro
City	Goldsboro
Towns	Eureka Fremont Mount Olive‡ Pikeville Seven Springs
Village	Walnut Creek
CDPs	Brogden Dudley Elroy Mar-Mac New Hope
Other communities	Faro Grantham Hopewell Nahunta Rosewood
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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