Main city: Newland
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Level 3 Communications

Newland, a town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 698 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Avery County. Before its founding, the area was known as Old Fields or Old Fields of Toe. In 1911 it was renamed Newland, after North Carolina Lieutenant Governor William C. Newland, and simultaneously became the county seat for Avery County. ^source

In the North American Numbering Plan, 828 is the telephone area code for most of the western third of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It includes all of the Blue Ridge Mountains, as well as most of the Foothills. The largest city in the 828 territory is Asheville. The city of Hickory is often grouped with the Charlotte metropolitan area, but uses 828 rather than Charlotte's 704 and 980. ^source