North Carolina County Information

Formation of North Carolina Counties

Alamance formed 1849 from Orange.
Albemarle. An original county formed in 1664. In 1668 it was subdivided; discontinued in 1689.
Alexander formed 1847 from Iredell, Caldwell and Wilkes.
Alleghany formed from Ashe in 1859.
Anson formed 1750 from Bladen.
Archdale formed 1705 from Bath; became Craven County in 1712.
Ashe formed 1799 from Wilkes.
Avery formed 1911 from Baldwell, Mitchell, Wautauga.
Bath formed in 1696 as an original county; subdivided in 1705.
Beaufort was renamed from Bath and Pamptecough in 1712.
Bertie formed in 1722 from Chowan.
Bladen formed 1734 from New Hanover.
Brunswick formed 1764 from New Hanover and Bladen.
Buncombe formed 1791 from Burke and Rutherford.
Burke formed 1777 from Rowan.
Bute formed 1764 from Granville; made into Franklin and Warren in 1779.
Cabarrus formed in 1792 from Mecklenburg
Caldwell formed 1841 from Burke and Wilkes
Camden formed 1774 from Pasquotank.
Carteret formed 1722 from Craven.
Caswell formed 1777 from Orange.
Catawba formed 1842 from Lincoln.
Chatham formed 1771 from Orange.
Cherokee formed 1839 from Macon.
Chowan formed 1670 from ALbemarle.
Clay formed 1861 from Cherokee.
Cleveland formed 1841 from Rutherford and Lincoln.
Columbus formed 1808 from Bladen and Brunswick.
Craven was renamed in 1712 from the Archdale Precinct of Cath County.
Cumberland formed 1754 from Bladen.
Currituck formed 1681 from Albemarle.
Dare formed 1870 from Currituck, Hyde and Tyrrell.
Davidson formed 1822 from Rowan.
Davie formed 1836 from Rowan.
Dobbs formed 1758 from Johnston; made into Glasgow and Lenoir in 1791.
Duplin formed 1750 from New Hanover.
Durham formed 1881 from Orange and Wake.
Edgecombe formed 1741 from Bertie.
Forsyth formed 1849 from Stokes.
Franklin formed 1779 from Bute.
Gaston formed 1846 from Lincoln.
Gates formed 1779 from Chowan, Hertford and Perquimans.
Glasgow formed 1791 from Dobbs.
Graham formed 1871 from Cherokee.
Granville formed 1746 from Edgecombe.
Greene formed 1799 from Glasgow.
Guilford formed 1770 from Rowan and Orange
Halifax formed 1758 from Edgecombe.
Harnett formed 1855 from Cumberland.
Haywood formed 1808 from Buncombe.
Henderson 1838 from Buncombe.
Hertford formed 1759 from Bertie, Chowan and Northampton.
Hoke formed 1911 from Cumberland and Robeson.
Hyde formed 1705 from Bath (Wickham Precinct); became Hyde in 1712.
Iredell formed 1788 from Rowan.
Jackson formed 1851 from Haywood and Macon
Johnston formed 1746 from Craven.
Jones formed 1778 from Craven.
Lee formed 1907 from Chatham and Moore.
Lenoir formed 1791 from Dobbs.
Lincoln formed 1779 from Tryon.
Macon formed 1828 from Haywood.
Madison formed 1851 from Buncombe and Yancey.
Martin formed 1774 from Halifax and Tyrrell.
McDowell formed 1842 from Burke and Rutherford.
Mecklenburg formed 1762 from Anson.
Mitchell formed 1861 from Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Watauga and Yancey.
Montgomery formed 1779 from Anson.
Moore formed 1784 from Cumberland.
Nash formed 1777 from Edgecombe.
New Hanover formed 1729 from Craven.
Northampton formed 1741 from Bertie.
Onslow formed 1734 from New Hanover.
Orange formed 1752 from Bladen, Granville and Johnston.
Pamlico formed 1872 from Beaufort and Craven.
Pasquotank formed 1681 from Albemarle.
Pender formed 1875 from New Hanover.
Perquimans formed 1679 from Albemarle.
Person formed 1791 from Caswell.
Pitt formed 1760 from Beaufort.
Polk formed 1855 from Henderson and Rutherford.
Randolph formed 1779 from Guilford.
Richmond formed 1779 from Anson.
Robeson formed 1787 from Bladen.
Rockingham formed 1785 from Guilford.
Rowan formed 1753 from Anson.
Rutherford formed 1779 from Burke and Tryon.
Sampson formed 1784 from Duplin.
Scotland formed 1899 from Richmond.
Stanly formed 1841 from Montgomery.
Stokes formed 1789 from Surry.
Surry formed 1770 from Rowan.
Swain formed 1871 from Jackson and Macon.
Transylvania formed 1861 from Henderson and Jackson.
Tryon formed 1769 from Mecklenburg: in 1779 became Lincoln and Rutherford.
Tyrrell formed 1729 from Bertie, Chowan, Currituck and Pasquotank
Union formed 1842 from Anson and Mecklenburg.
Vance formed 1881 from Franklin, Granville and Warren.
Wake formed 1771 from Cumberland, Johnston and Orange.
Warren formed 1779 from Bute.
Washington formed 1799 from Tyrrell.
Watauga formed 1849 from Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes and Yancey.
Wayne formed 1779 from Dobbs.
Wilkes formed 1778 from Surry.
Wilson formed 1855 from Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash and Wayne.
Yadkin formed 1850 from Surry.
Yancey formed 1833 from Buncombe and Burke.