User:Leakeyroof/NC County Descriptions

Alamance Description
Alamance County is located in the North-Central portion of North Carolina and is called after the creek by the same name - Alamance - a Native American word describing the blue-colored mud found in the creekbed.

Alexander Description
Alexander County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named in honor of the Alexander family who were leaders in Colonial North Carolina.

Alleghany Description
Alleghany County is located in the North-West portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Virginia. It was named for an Indian tribe, and the name is derived from "a corruption of the Delaware Indian name for the Allegheny River and is said to have meant "a fine stream".

Anson Description
Anson County is located in the Southern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with South Carolina. It was named for George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, a British Admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

Ashe Description
Ashe County is located in the upper Northwest corner of North Carolina and shares border with Tennessee and Virginia. It was named for Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

Avery Description
Avery County is located in the Northwestern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Tennessee. It was named for Col. Waightstill Avery, a Revolutionary War officer and the first attorney general of North Carolina.

Beaufort Description
Beaufort County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and it took its present name from Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Bertie Description
Bertie County is located in the Northeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for James and Henry Bertie to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Bladen Description
Bladen County is located in the Southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for English commissioner of trade and plantations Martin Bladen.

Brunswick Description
Brunswick County is located in the Southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for King George I, who was also the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg.

Buncombe Description
Buncombe County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named for Edward Buncombe, a Revolutionary War colonel.

Burke Description
Burke County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named for Thomas Burke, delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of the state 1781-1782.

Cabarrus Description
Cabarrus County is located in the South-Central Piedmont portion of North Carolina and was named for Stephen Cabarrus, then Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons.

Caldwell Description
Caldwell County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named for Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Camden Description
Camden County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Virginia. It was named for Sir Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden, in gratitude for the support he gave to the colonists.

Carteret Description
Carteret County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and was named for John Carteret to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Caswell Description
Caswell County is located in the North-Central portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Virginia. It was named for Richard Caswell, the first Governor of North Carolina.

Catawba Description
Catawba County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named for the Catawba Indians.

Chatham Description
Chatham County is located in the Central portion of North Carolina and was named for William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, who defended American rights in the British Parliament.

Cherokee Description
Cherokee County is located in the extreme Southwest corner of North Carolina and shares borders with Georgia and Tennessee. It was named for the Cherokee Indians who inhabited its land before European settlement began.

Chowan Description
Chowan County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and was originally called Shaftesbury Precinct of Albemarle County. It was renamed Chowan Precinct around 1681 for the Chowan River, itself named for the Chowanoac Indians who inhabited the region.

Clay Description
Clay County is located in the Southwest portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Georgia. It was named for Henry Clay, a U.S. congressional leader and presidential candidate from Kentucky.

Cleveland Description
Cleveland County is located in the Southwest portion of North Carolina and shares a border with South Carolina. It was named for Col. Benjamin Cleveland, a hero of the Revolutionary War.

Columbus Description
Columbus County is located in the South-Central portion of North Carolina and shares a border with South Carolina. It was named for explorer Christopher Columbus.

Craven Description
Craven County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and it was named in honor of the Earl of Craven to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Cumberland Description
Cumberland County is located in the South-Central portion of North Carolina and its name was derived from the title of Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, the son of King George II.

Currituck Description
Currituck County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Virginia. Its name was taken from an Indian word meaning "land of the wild geese".