Formation of North Carolina Counties
Map of NC counties in 1770 with links to other dates
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County Name Year Parent Counties Alamance 1849 Orange Albemarle 1664 Original county (extinct 1689) Alexander 1847 Iredell, Caldwell, Wilkes Alleghany 1859 Ashe Anson 1750 Bladen Ashe 1799 Wilkes Avery 1911 Mitchell, Watauga, Caldwell Bath 1696 Original county (extinct after 1724) Beaufort 1705 Bath [Pamptecough, 1705-1712] Bertie 1722 Chowan Bladen 1734 New Hanover Brunswick 1764 New Hanover, Bladen Buncombe 1791 Burke, Rutherford Burke 1777 Rowan Bute 1764 Granville Cabarrus 1792 Mecklenburg Caldwell 1841 Burke, Wilkes Camden 1777 Pasquotank Carteret 1722 Craven Caswell 1777 Orange Catawba 1842 Lincoln Chatham 1771 Orange Cherokee 1839 Macon Chowan 1668 Albemarle [Shaftesbury, 1670-82] Clarendon 1664 Original county (Abandoned by 1667) Clay 1861 Cherokee Cleveland 1841 Rutherford, Lincoln Columbus 1808 Brunswick, Bladen Craven 1705 Bath [Archdale, 1705-1712] Cumberland 1754 Bladen Currituck 1668 Albemarle [Carteret, 1670-82] Dare 1870 Currituck, Tyrrell, Hyde Davidson 1822 Rowan Davie 1836 Rowan Dobbs 1759 Johnston Duplin 1750 New Hanover Durham 1881 Orange, Wake Edgecombe 1741 Bertie Forsyth 1849 Stokes Franklin 1779 Bute Gaston 1846 Lincoln Gates 1779 Chowan, Hertford, Perquimans Glasgow 1791 Dobbs Graham 1872 Cherokee Granville 1746 Edgecombe Greene 1799 Glasgow Guilford 1771 Rowan, Orange Halifax 1759 Edgecombe Harnett 1855 Cumberland Haywood 1808 Buncombe Henderson 1838 Buncombe Hertford 1760 Chowan, Bertie, Northampton Hoke 1911 Cumberland, Robeson Hyde 1705 Bath [Wickham, 1705-1712] Iredell 1788 Rowan Jackson 1851 Haywood, Macon Johnston 1746 Craven Jones 1779 Craven Lee 1907 Moore, Chatham Lenoir 1791 Dobbs Lincoln 1779 Tryon Macon 1828 Haywood Madison 1851 Buncombe, Yancey Martin 1774 Halifax, Tyrrell McDowell 1842 Rutherford, Burke Mecklenburg 1763 Anson Mitchell 1861 Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke, McDowell Montgomery 1779 Anson Moore 1784 Cumberland Nash 1777 Edgecombe New Hanover 1729 Craven Northampton 1741 Bertie Onslow 1734 New Hanover Orange 1752 Johnston, Bladen, Granville Pamlico 1872 Craven, Beaufort Pasquotank 1668 Albemarle [Carteret, 1670-82] Pender 1875 New Hanover Perquimans 1668 Albemarle [Berkeley, 1670-82] Person 1792 Caswell Pitt 1761 Beaufort Polk 1855 Rutherford, Henderson Randolph 1779 Guilford Richmond 1779 Anson Robeson 1787 Bladen Rockingham 1785 Guilford Rowan 1753 Anson Rutherford 1779 Tryon Sampson 1784 Duplin Scotland 1899 Richmond Stanly 1841 Montgomery Stokes 1789 Surry Swain 1871 Jackson, Macon Surry 1771 Rowan Transylvania 1861 Henderson, Jackson Tryon 1768 Mecklenburg Tyrrell 1729 Chowan, Bertie, Currituck, Pasquotank Union 1842 Anson, Mecklenburg Vance 1881 Granville, Warren, Franklin Wake 1771 Johnston, Cumberland, Orange Warren 1779 Bute Washington 1799 Tyrrell Watauga 1849 Ashe, Wilkes, Caldwell, Yancey Wayne 1779 Dobbs Wilkes 1778 Surry, District of Washington Wilson 1855 Edgecombe, Nash, Johnston, Wayne Yadkin 1850 Surry Yancey 1833 Burke, Buncombe