Live in Lake Jeanette
One subdivision area of 257 acres west of the lake that gives it its name, zoned for an elementary school graded B two years running and 1.28 km from the nearest bus stop, which is served once an hour at midday.
Lake Jeanette here is not the lake: it is the area the City of Greensboro's estimated neighborhood map draws under that name west of Bass Chapel Road, 1,416 residents in 542 housing units on 257 acres at the 2020 census, with Regents Park Lane and Beaconwood Drive running through it. The City annexed the land in three pieces, under 929 of today's residents in 1985, 225 in 1986 and 262 in 1990, and the 2.61 residents per housing unit are well above the 1.88 in Kirkwood to the south. The lake itself, about 270 acres built by the Cone family in the 1940s to supply its mills, lies east of the line, and the City's map draws the subdivisions around its shore, The Point, Waters Edge, Blue Heron, Northern Shores and others, as separate areas. Which homeowners association, if any, covers these streets, and what it charges, was not read.
Named for the lake, drawn beside it
An area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws: feature 168, "Lake Jeanette", on the hosted "neighborhood" layer published by the account behind the City's Neighborhood Traffic Management Program maps, marked VERIFIED NO, on a map whose companion point layer calls its centers estimated and says they "should not be considered accurate". It is clipped to the City limits, which hold all of it. It is not an association's territory, a registered organization or a plat, and it is not the lake: the water lies east of the line, and the layer draws The Point at Lake Jeanette, Waters Edge at Lake Jeanette, Blue Heron at Lake Jeanette, Northern Shores, The Bluffs, Old Towne and North Hills as separate features around it. Traced against the City's street centerlines, Regents Park Lane runs along the southern edge for about 670 m and Bass Chapel Road along the eastern for about 390 m; most of the rest of the line follows lot lines. Regents Park Lane and Beaconwood Drive run through it. The whole area is in Guilford County, Guilford County Schools, City Council District 3 and ZIP code 27455.
Lake Jeanette is first a lake. The Cone family built it in the 1940s to supply water to its textile mills, fed by Richland Creek; the lake's master homeowners association dates it to 1940, and Greensboro's local wiki says it was named for Jeannette Cone, a granddaughter of the family. Water went to Buffalo Lake and on to the Cone treatment plant. The lake is about 270 acres. Cone Mills sold it in 1997, and in 2017 two Charlotte buyers took it and Buffalo Lake for about $1 million. Around its shore came village sections, Southern Shores in 1993 through Northern Shores in 1998, which a master association has run since 2001, marina and docks included.
This guide is not that. It follows the area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws as Lake Jeanette: one subdivision area of 257 acres west of Bass Chapel Road, with Regents Park Lane and Beaconwood Drive through it. The lake is not inside the line, and the same map draws The Point, Waters Edge, Blue Heron, Northern Shores and the other shore areas as separate features. The layer was published by the account behind the City's traffic-calming maps, this feature is marked unverified, and the City's companion point layer says its centers "should not be considered accurate." It is not an association's territory or a plat. Inside it the 2020 census counted 1,416 residents in 542 housing units, 2.61 residents a unit.
The City came first, then the villages. The City annexed the land under 929 of today's residents in 1985, 225 in 1986 and 262 in 1990, all before the earliest lakeside section the master association lists. When these houses were built was not read, and neither was which homeowners association, if any, the lots belong to or what it charges. That is the question to put to a seller, because living beside Lake Jeanette is not the same as using it: the lake is privately owned, and the marina, docks and most of the trails are kept for the master association's members.
The schools are the strongest argument, and the bus the weakest. The point is zoned for Jesse Wharton Elementary, graded B in both 2024-25 and 2023-24, 1.71 km away, then Mendenhall Middle, D both years, and Page High, B after C, both a long drive south. The nearest bus stop is 1.28 km away on Cottage Place, where Route 17 comes hourly at midday, and no stop is inside the line. The Glenn McNairy branch library is 1.21 km away and a Food Lion on Lawndale Drive 1.49 km. Census tract 157.07, which holds every resident, has 9.3% of its people aged three and over in college, with wide margins.
The money. A house here pays Guilford County 78.95 cents and the City 79.85 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027, 158.80 cents in all, charged on the 2022 revaluation's values because Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 reappraisal off to the 2027 bills: a buyer's first bill follows the seller's assessment. Stormwater and solid waste come on the City's water bill, at figures read only secondhand. On the City's flood layer 1.82% of the area is in the special flood hazard area along a creek, no resident of 2020 lived on a block in it, and the point is in zone X. Zillow's typical value for ZIP 27455 was $368,611 in August 2026, flat on the year, for the whole ZIP.
- Ask the seller which homeowners association, if any, the lot belongs to, what it charges and whether membership reaches the marina
- Ask for the County's reappraisal notice of February 2026: it is the value the 2027 bill will use
- Run the address through Guilford County Schools' 2026-27 locator before counting on Jesse Wharton
- Look the lot up on the state's flood maps: the hazard area follows a creek between the houses
How Lake Jeanette got here
- 1940sThe Cone family builds Lake Jeanette, fed by Richland Creek, to supply water to its textile mills; the master homeowners association dates it to 1940. It is named for Jeannette Cone, a granddaughter of the family.
- 1985The City annexes the land under 929 of the area's 2020 residents, the largest of three pieces.
- 1986A second annexation brings in the land under 225 more.
- 1990The third, under 262, completes the City's Lake Jeanette area. When its houses were built was not read.
- 1993Southern Shores, the first of the lakeside village sections the Lake Jeanette master association lists, opens; Eastern Shores follows in 1994, the Point in 1995 and Northern Shores in 1998. The City's layer draws those shore areas separately from this one.
- 1997Cone Mills sells the lake on 7 May, by the local wiki's account.
- 2001The master homeowners association takes over control of the Lake Jeanette development, excluding unbuilt lots, and goes on to maintain the marina, docks and most of the nature trails.
- 2017Two Charlotte buyers acquire Lake Jeanette and Buffalo Lake for about $1 million and plan private docks and paddle craft, the Rhino Times reports; the lake then has 234 lakefront lots.
- 2020The census counts 1,416 residents and 542 housing units in the 18 blocks inside the line, none on a block in a special flood hazard area.
- 2026New FEMA flood map panels take effect on 10 June. In June the City and the County raise their rates to 79.85 and 78.95 cents per $100, on 2022 values, after Senate Bill 889 puts the 2026 reappraisal off to the 2027 bills. On 9 July the City's traffic-calming map account creates the neighborhood layer that draws this guide's line.
The water is next door, and only some of it is open to everyone
Lake Jeanette lies east of the line, about 1.3 km from the point, privately owned. To the west, Lake Brandt is a reservoir of more than 800 acres with trails and calm water for kayaks and paddleboards. About 2.4 to 3 km south-southwest, Country Park has two stocked fishing lakes and trails beside the Greensboro Science Center, a museum, aquarium and zoo, and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, whose tour road is open to walkers and cyclists from dawn to dusk.
What the map does not show: any park inside the line. OpenStreetMap names none, the nearest City park is Three Meadows Park on Miltwood Drive, 2.5 km away, and the City's park pages refused this site's requests, so park equipment and hours were not read.
Elsewhere in Greensboro, not Lake Jeanette
24 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 24 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from a representative point, the population-weighted center of the 2020 census blocks inside the line, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
There is no public gym or pool inside the line. The City's nearest recreation centers are Lewis on Forest Lawn Drive, about 3.7 km south-southwest, and Craft on Yanceyville Street, about 4.5 km southeast. The Alex W. Spears III YMCA on Horse Pen Creek Road is about 5 km west, and the nearest City pool is indoors at the Smith Active Adult Center, about 6.7 km away.
- Lewis Recreation Center, 3110 Forest Lawn Drive: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays, on the City's layer
- Craft Recreation Center, 3911 Yanceyville Street: the layer says to call for hours
- Ask whether the lot's association, if it has one, runs a pool of its own
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Recreation Center open | The City's nearest recreation center, at 3110 Forest Lawn Drive, south-southwest: the City's facility layer lists it open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, closed Sunday. | 8–11 min |
| Craft Recreation Center open | The City's recreation center at 3911 Yanceyville Street, southeast of the line; the facility layer says to call for hours. | 9–13 min |
| Alex W. Spears III YMCA open | The YMCA at 3216 Horse Pen Creek Road, west of the line, on OpenStreetMap; its programs and fees were not read. | 9–14 min |
| Smith Active Adult Center open | 2401 Fairview Street: the nearest City pool, indoors. Pool hours and fees were not read. | 10–15 min |
The free option is the trails at Lake Brandt and Country Park and the battlefield's tour road, all within about 4 km by road.
A strong elementary zone, and long drives after it
Guilford County Schools assigns by the attendance zone of the parent's or guardian's home. The point is zoned for Jesse Wharton Elementary on Lake Brandt Road, graded B for 2024-25 and 2023-24, for Mendenhall Middle, D both years, about 4.9 km south, and for Page High, B after C, about 5.8 km away, and the district's 2026-27 layers put all 1,416 residents of 2020 in those same three zones. No magnet elementary is within 3 km.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jesse Wharton Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Jesse Wharton Elementary on the district's 2026-27 attendance layer, and so are all 1,416 residents of 2020. It is at 5813 Lake Brandt Road, 1.71 km from the point in a straight line, outside the line. NC DPI graded it B for 2024-25 (score 75, growth exceeded) and B for 2023-24. |
| Mendenhall Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The middle school zone at the point and for every resident, at 205 Willoughby Boulevard, 4.93 km south. Graded D for 2024-25 (score 46, growth not met) and D for 2023-24. |
| Page High School | Guilford County Schools | Walter Hines Page High, 201 Alma Pinnix Drive, 5.81 km away, is the high school zone at the point and for every resident. Graded B for 2024-25 (score 72, growth exceeded) after C for 2023-24. |
| Grades and choice | Guilford County Schools | The grades are DPI's for 2024-25 and 2023-24. DPI's Annual Testing Report of 2 September 2026 says 2025-26 grades exist, but no school-level 2025-26 file was found for this guide, so read the NC School Report Cards site before relying on these. No magnet elementary on the district's site layer is within 3 km. Families have a guaranteed right to enroll in the assigned neighborhood school; choice programs take applications in the fall, most by lottery, and the 2026-27 deadline was not read. |
Run the exact address through the district's School Assignment Locator before you commit. The grades are the state's for 2024-25 and 2023-24; DPI says 2025-26 grades are out, but no school-level file was found, so check the NC School Report Cards site. Choice programs take fall applications, mostly by lottery.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 9.6 °C and lows near -1.1 °C at Piedmont Triad International, with 19.5 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normals
- The snowiest month, at 7.4 cm on the normal
- On the County's 2025 schedule, property tax unpaid after 5 January began to collect interest
- Highs near 11.8 °C, 15.1 freezing nights and 5.1 cm of snow on the normal
- The County mailed its 2026 reappraisal notices in February 2026; those values go on the 2027 bill, not the 2026 one
- Ask a seller for that notice: it is the value the next bill will use
- Highs of 16.3 °C, 94 mm of rain and still 8 freezing nights on the normal
- The last measurable snow of the normal year, 2.3 cm
- Every resident is zoned for Jesse Wharton, Mendenhall and Page in 2026-27; run the exact address through the district's locator anyway
- Highs of 21.7 °C and 96 mm of rain
- Lake Brandt, about 3.5 km away by road, is open water for kayaks and paddleboards; Lake Jeanette's marina and docks are kept for the master association's members
- The Curb Market on Yanceyville Street adds its Tuesday evening market from April to October
- Highs of 25.6 °C and the first day at or above 32 °C on the normal
- 89 mm of rain on 6.8 wet days
- Country Park's lakes and the battlefield's tour road are about 4 km south-southwest by road
- Highs of 29.6 °C and 6.6 days at or above 32 °C
- The City and the County adopt the next year's rates in June: 79.85 and 78.95 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027
- FEMA's flood map panels for the point took effect on 10 June 2026; 1.82% of the area is in the special flood hazard area, along a creek
- Highs of 31.4 °C, 13.7 days at or above 32 °C and 106 mm of rain
- On the County's 2025 schedule, tax notices went out in July
- Route 17 still runs hourly at midday from the stop on Cottage Place, 1.28 km from the point
- Highs of 30.3 °C and 111 mm of rain
- 9.1 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- The fiscal year's bills are on 2022 values for the last time: the 2027 bills move to the 2026 reappraisal
- Guilford County and Greensboro take 1% off for payment before 1 September, the due date
- The wettest month, 117 mm on the normal, with highs of 26.9 °C
- The Curb Market's Tuesday evening season runs through October
- Highs of 21.7 °C and 79 mm of rain
- Downtown is about 12 km south by road, down Lawndale Drive or North Elm Street
- The first freezing night of the season arrives on the normal, 0.5 of them
- Highs of 15.9 °C and 7.7 freezing nights on the normal
- 83 mm of rain
- The Glenn McNairy branch library on Lake Jeanette Road is about 1.6 km by road
- Highs of 11.1 °C, 16.6 freezing nights and 3.0 cm of snow on the normal
- Downtown's Festival of Lights opens the season on an early December Friday at Center City Park and LeBauer Park; the 2026 date was not posted
- The Curb Market keeps its Saturday morning market through the winter
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