The Top Ten Amazing Facts about the City of Hickory   For the 13th consecutive year, an equivalent of 4,745 days the City of Hickory has had no fire-related deaths.   The City of Hickory collected 2,263 tons of recyclable newspaper, cardboard and office paper last year. This saves 38,471 trees and the equivalent energy savings of 38,471 barrels of oil. The City of Hickory has conducted business with 740 different companies in the past year. The Billing Division mailed 288,292 water, sewer, and solid waste fee bills to City of Hickory customers. The City of Hickory Traffic Engineering’s new US 321 signal operation saves nearly $100,000 in stops and fuel costs annually and eliminates over 3,300 pounds of emissions. From July 2006 to present, the Planning Department has processed 220 total subdivision lots of which 81.3% were new residential lots and 18.7% new commercial lots. Did you know that if you laid out the number of bags of litter that the City picks up each year, it would stretch over two miles. Street crews poured over 1.5 miles of concrete this year. 8,444 skaters utilized the Stanford Skateboard Park Landscape Services plant 160,000 flowers per year.     Now that’s amazing!