Meadows is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, about four miles southeast of the county seat, Danbury, on North Carolina State Highway 8.<Ref name='cite1">The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed, p. 340 (2010) ("Meadows, community in central Stokes County between Flat Shoal Creek and the head of Zilphy Creek.")</ref> Meadows at one time had its own community school, which was later consolidated with other community schools into the Walnut Cove schools in the 1920s.<Ref name="cite2">Tucker Chad. Stokes County, p. 72 (2004) ("By 1922, schools in the surrounding communities of Freeman, Fulp, Meadows, Rosebud, Stewarts, and Tuttles had consolidated with Walnut Cove.")</ref> Stokes Early College High School has been located in Meadows in 2010.<Ref name="hs1">Our Story & History, Stokes Early College High School, Retrieved 6 March 2026</ref><Ref name="school2">(4 February 2025). Stokes Early College looking for new Falcons for 2025-2026, The Stokes News ("Although the high school is located in the Meadows community of Stokes County...")</ref>