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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.
