HIGH POINT, a city of Guilford county, North Carolina, U.S.A., in the Piedmont region, at an altitude of 94oft., 99m. W. by N. of Raleigh. It is on Federal highways 7o and 311, and is served by the Southern Railway system, and High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern, the High Point, Thomasville and Denton railways. The population was 14,302 in 1920 (2o% negroes) ; 22,279 in 1922, after annexations of territory, and was 36,745 in 193o by the Federal census. It is an important manu facturing centre, with 73 furniture and wood-working factories and 29 textile mills in 1928. The factory output in 1925 was valued at $32,132,296. The Southern Furniture exposition is held here twice a year, and two journals devoted to the interests of the trade are published here. High Point was settled about 1855 and incorpo rated in 1899. Since 1916 it has had a commission-manager form of government. The population increased considerably more than threefold between 190o and 192o.