NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY FORMATION

North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1700.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1740.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1760.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1775.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1780.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1800.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1840.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1850.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1870.
North Carolina Counties at the beginning of 1900.
North Carolina Counties since the beginning of 1912.

NOTE: These maps have been reproduced from The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943 by David Leroy Corbitt, published and copyrighted by the Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, NC.

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Further details of these counties