Yes -- it's ~ 25 miles between Laurinburg & Lumberton. Laurinburg is in Scotland County, and it is the county seat -- population is ~ 15,000.
All those other towns in the area are just little farming towns -- very few job opportunities in those little places, and the closest city having any kind of population is Fayetteville, NC, pop. ~ 200,000, and it is very close to Ft. Bragg, NC, home of The Airborne and Special Operations Forces, with about 50,000 active military personnel. The Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg area also has a fairly high crime rate, and it is about 35 miles from Lumberton.