Buncombe County, North Carolina Genealogy

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Parent County
1791--Buncombe County was created 5 December 1791 from Burke and Rutherford Counties. County seat: Asheville

Record Loss
1830, 1865--The courthouse fires destroyed many court records.

Neighboring Counties

 * Haywood
 * Henderson
 * Madison
 * McDowell
 * Rutherford
 * Transylvania
 * Yancey

Cemeteries

 * FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK

Family Histories

 * [Gash] Rising, Marsha Hoffman. "The Gash Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina: Who Was Ebenezer Gash of St. Clair County, Missouri?," The American Genealogist, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr. 1998):105-116.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog