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==In popular culture== *Siler City was featured in episode 140 (season 5, episode 13) of ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' (December 14, 1964) as the place where Andy and Helen were taken by a game warden for fishing without a license.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512404/ Internet Movie Database]</ref> The city was featured again on The Andy Griffith Show (11 January 1965) in episode 143, (season 5, episode 17) as the home of Sheriff Jackson, who visits Andy to see how Mayberry does traffic safety,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512485/|title = Goober Takes a Car Apart|website = [[IMDb]]|date = 11 January 1965}}</ref> and once more (January 1, 1968) in a cooking show on the local TV station. In this episode, Andy described the city as only a 25-minute drive from Mayberry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512596/|title = The Mayberry Chef|website = [[IMDb]]|date = January 1968}}</ref> *The town was the setting for Paul Cuadros' book, ''A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America'' (2006), a non-fiction account of his experience coaching a majority-[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] soccer team at the high school to a state championship in spite of adversity faced by the students.<ref>{{cite magazine| title=A Home on the Field in TIME| url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1364206,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901071004/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1364206%2C00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=September 1, 2006| magazine=TIME Magazine | first=Paul| last=Cuadros| date=26 August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/resources_geo.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121184349/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/resources_geo.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 21, 2008|title=National Geographic Magazine}}</ref>
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