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North Carolina Counties by Date Founded
Knowing the date when counties were formed can be of great help in determining the date of an undated map, or verifying the publication date of a dated map. For example, a map showing Durham county could have been published no earlier than 1881, when that county was formed from parts of Orange and Wake Counties. Likewise, a map showing Watauga County (established 1849) but not Wilson County (established 1855) was most likely published in the early 1850s.
It is worth examining the presence of counties on state maps, even when there is a publication or copyright date. Many map publishers would often purchase existing plates or simply copy maps from older atlases and change little more than the date. Thus a map listed with a publication date of 1885 may very well show North Carolina as it looked in 1875.
North Carolina Counties with Date Founded (Chronological List)
| County | Year Formed | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Albemarle | 1663 | disbanded in 1689 |
| Chowan | 1670 | |
| Currituck | 1670 | |
| Pasquotank | 1670 | |
| Perquimans | 1670 | |
| Bath | 1696 | divided into separate counties in 1705, though referred to in records as late as 1724 |
| Archdale | 1705 | name changed to Craven in 1712 |
| Pamptecough | 1705 | name changed to Beaufort in 1712 |
| Wickham | 1705 | name changed to Hyde in 1712 |
| Beaufort | 1712 | |
| Craven | 1712 | |
| Hyde | 1712 | |
| Bertie | 1722 | |
| Carteret | 1722 | |
| New Hanover | 1729 | |
| Tyrrell | 1729 | |
| Bladen | 1734 | |
| Onslow | 1734 | |
| Edgecombe | 1741 | |
| Northampton | 1741 | |
| Johnston | 1745 | |
| Granville | 1746 | |
| Anson | 1750 | |
| Duplin | 1750 | |
| Orange | 1752 | |
| Rowan | 1753 | |
| Cumberland | 1754 | |
| Dobbs | 1758 | divided into Wayne County 1779 and Glasgow and Lenoir Counties in 1791 |
| Halifax | 1758 | |
| Hertford | 1759 | |
| Pitt | 1760 | |
| Mecklenburg | 1762 | |
| Brunswick | 1764 | |
| Bute | 1764 | divided to form Franklin and Warren Counties in 1779 |
| Tryon | 1768 | divided to form Lincoln and Rutherford Counties in 1779 |
| Chatham | 1770 | |
| Guilford | 1770 | |
| Surry | 1770 | |
| Wake | 1770 | |
| Martin | 1774 | |
| Burke | 1777 | |
| Camden | 1777 | |
| Caswell | 1777 | |
| Nash | 1777 | |
| Wilkes | 1777 | |
| Jones | 1778 | |
| Franklin | 1779 | |
| Gates | 1779 | |
| Lincoln | 1779 | |
| Montgomery | 1779 | |
| Randolph | 1779 | |
| Richmond | 1779 | |
| Rutherford | 1779 | |
| Warren | 1779 | |
| Wayne | 1779 | |
| Fayette | 1784 | formed from Cumberland and Moore counties in July 1784, then returned to the name Cumberland in October 1784 |
| Moore | 1784 | |
| Sampson | 1784 | |
| Rockingham | 1785 | |
| Robeson | 1787 | |
| Iredell | 1788 | |
| Stokes | 1789 | |
| Buncombe | 1791 | |
| Glasgow | 1791 | name changed to Greene County in 1799 |
| Lenoir | 1791 | |
| Person | 1791 | |
| Cabarrus | 1792 | |
| Ashe | 1799 | |
| Greene | 1799 | |
| Washington | 1799 | |
| Columbus | 1808 | |
| Haywood | 1808 | |
| Davidson | 1822 | |
| Macon | 1828 | |
| Yancey | 1833 | |
| Davie | 1836 | |
| Henderson | 1838 | |
| Cherokee | 1839 | |
| Caldwell | 1841 | |
| Cleveland | 1841 | |
| Stanly | 1841 | |
| Catawba | 1842 | |
| McDowell | 1842 | |
| Union | 1842 | |
| Gaston | 1846 | |
| Alexander | 1847 | |
| Alamance | 1849 | |
| Forsyth | 1849 | |
| Watauga | 1849 | |
| Yadkin | 1850 | |
| Jackson | 1851 | |
| Madison | 1851 | |
| Harnett | 1855 | |
| Polk | 1855 | |
| Wilson | 1855 | |
| Alleghany | 1859 | |
| Clay | 1861 | |
| Mitchell | 1861 | |
| Transylvania | 1861 | |
| Dare | 1870 | |
| Swain | 1871 | |
| Graham | 1872 | |
| Pamlico | 1872 | |
| Pender | 1875 | |
| Durham | 1881 | |
| Vance | 1881 | |
| Scotland | 1899 | |
| Lee | 1907 | |
| Avery | 1911 | |
| Hoke | 1911 |
Sources
David Leroy Corbitt. The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943. Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1950.
William S. Powell. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
