North Carolina Counties

North Carolina Counties

The state of North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. They are ranked 28th in size by area, and has the seventh most counties in the whole country.

The county history of North Carolina stretches over 340 years, It all began in the year 1668 with the creation of Albemarle County and ended in 1911 when Avery and Hoke counties came to be. Five North Carolina counties have been divided or abolished altogether, the last one was Dobbs County in 1791.

North Carolina County Map

Here are a list of the North Carolina counties and a county map to show their location in the state of North Carolina.

• Alamance County NC
• Alexander County NC
• Alleghany County NC
• Anson County NC
• Ashe County NC
• Avery County NC
• Beaufort County NC
• Bertie County NC
• Bladen County NC
• Brunswick County NC
• Buncombe County NC
• Burke County NC
• Cabarrus County NC
• Caldwell County NC
• Camden County NC
• Carteret County NC
• Caswell County NC
• Catawba County NC
• Chatham County NC
• Cherokee County NC
• Chowan County NC
• Clay County NC
• Cleveland County NC
• Columbus County NC
• Craven County NC
• Cumberland County NC
• Currituck County NC
• Dare County NC
• Davidson County NC
• Davie County NC
• Duplin County NC
• Durham County NC
• Edgecombe County NC
• Forsyth County NC
• Franklin County NC
• Gaston County NC
• Gates County NC
• Granville County NC
• Greene County NC
• Guilford County NC
• Halifax County NC
• Graham County NC
• Harnett County NC
• Haywood County NC
• Henderson County NC
• Hertford County NC
• Hoke County NC
• Hyde County NC
• Iredell County NC
• Jackson County NC
• Johnston County NC
• Jones County NC
• Lee County NC
• Lenoir County NC
• Lincoln County NC
• Macon County NC
• Madison County NC
• Martin County NC
• McDowell County NC
• Mecklenburg County NC
• Mitchell County NC
• Montgomery County NC
• Moore County NC
• Nash County NC
• New Hanover County NC
• Northampton County NC
• Onslow County NC
• Orange County NC
• Pamlico County NC
• Pasquotank County NC
• Pende County NCr
• Perquimans County NC
• Person County NC
• Pitt County NC
• Polk County NC
• Randolph County NC
• Richmond County NC
• Robeson County NC
• Rockingham County NC
• Rowan County NC
• Rutherford County NC
• Sampson County NC
• Scotland County NC
• Stanly County NC
• Stokes County NC
• Surry County NC
• Swain County NC
• Transylvania County NC
• Tyrrell County NC
• Union County NC
• Vance County NC
• Wake County NC
• Warren County NC
• Washington County NC
• Watauga County NC
• Wayne County NC
• Wilkes County NC
• Wilson County NC
• Yadkin County NC
• Yancey County NC
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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