- Bat Cave, North Carolina
Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County,
North Carolina ,United States . It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.The community was named after Bat Cave Mountain, which in turn was named for a cave at the foot of the mountain which is inhabited by a multitude of bats. The town is located on the Broad River at 35.451N and -82.287W with an elevation of approximately 1,460 feet.
Bat Cave is roughly a forty-minute drive east of Asheville in the
Blue Ridge Mountains by way of state highways that wind through the mountains.Although it is unincorporated, it has a
post office , with theZIP code of 28710. [ [http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=28710 Zip Code Lookup] ]Bat Cave is serviced by an all volunteer fire department.
Bat Cave has a Bimonthly community paper called "The Bat Biz"
In the "
Splinter Cell " series of video games, the fictional character Colonel Irving Lambert is from Bat Cave.References
External links
* [http://www.historichendersonville.org/ Visitor's Information Center for Hendersonville] , the seat of the county in which Bat Cave is situated
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