CLEVELAND COUNTY, NC, TOWNSHIPS

Cleveland County is divided into eleven townships, which are both numbered and named:

  Regarding Cleveland Co. townships and what they included, here is what I have gleaned from censuses, newspapers, PO lists, and maps.  Some of the names and areas changed over time too.  In fact, names associated with the townships came from geographic features, post offices and sometimes old tax or militia districts named after the captain of the district in the past.   Remember, this is just a guide.

If you have access to the Kiser map from the 1880s, you can see the townships drawn in and see where many of the folks lived at the time.  [Note:  ED=enumeration district]. 

 No. 1--Camp Creek, "River"; 1880 Enumeration District 65; 1900 ED 48; 1910 ED 33; 1920 ED 48; 1930 ED 1.

No. 2--Nicholsonville, Stices Shoals (part), Shelby (part), "Boiling Springs"; 1880 ED 66; 1890 ED 95; 1900 ED 49; 1910 EDs 34 & 35; 1920 EDs 49 & 50; 1930 EDs 2, 3, & 4. 

 No. 3--"Austell's", "Patterson's", "Rippys", Stices Shoals (most), Swango Town, part of Shelby; 1880 ED 67; 1900 ED 50; 1910 ED 36 & 37; 1920 EDs 51 & 52; 1930 EDs 5 & 6.

 No. 4--Nine House, White Plains, Grover, "Kings Mountain"; 1880 ED 68; 1900 EDs 51 & 52; 1910 EDs 38 & 39; 1920 EDs 53 (Grover) & 54, 55, & 56 (Kings Mountain); 1930 EDs 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12.

No. 5--"Warlick's", Buffalo Paper Mill, Muddy Fork, Waco, Stony Point; 1880 ED 69; 1900 EDs 53 & 54; 1910 EDs 40 & 41; 1920 EDs 57 (Waco) & 58; 1930 EDs 13, 14, & 15.

 No. 6--Shelby; 1880 ED 70; 1900 EDs 55 (outskirts) and 56 "Shelby town"; 1910 EDs 42 (outskirts) & 43 (Shelby town); 1920 EDs 59, 60, & 61 (outskirts) & 62 & 63 (both Shelby town); 1930 EDs 16, 17, 18, & 19 (all Shelby city), & 20, 21, & 22.

 No. 7--Mooresboro, Camp Call (part),  Shelby (part), Double Springs, Lattimore, "Sandy Run"; 1880 ED 71; 1900 EDs 57 & 58; 1910 EDs 44 & 45; 1920 EDs 64 & 65; 1930 EDs 23, 24, 25, & 26.

 No. 8--Camp Call (most), Knob Creek (small part), Gardner's Ford (small part), Duncan's Creek, "Polkville"; 1880 ED 72; 1900 EDs 59 & 60; 1910 EDs 46 & 47; 1920 EDs 66 & 67; 1930 EDs 27 & 28.

 No. 9--"Double Shoals", Gardner's Ford, Cleveland Mills, Fallston, Riverdale, Lawndale; 1880 ED 73; 1900 EDs 61 & 62; 1910 EDs 48 & 49; 1920 EDs 68 (Lawndale) & 69; 1930 EDs 29, 30, & 31.

 No. 10--"Knob Creek" (most); 1880 ED 74; 1900 ED 63; 1910 ED 50; 1920 ED 70; 1930 ED 32.

 No. 11--"Casar", Knob Creek (part); 1880 ED 75; 1900 ED 64; 1910 ED 51; 1920 ED 71; 1930 ED 33.

  

[Courtesy of Lynn Wesson , Hillsborough, NC]

These pages are copyrighted in the name of the NCGenWeb Project and/or the submitters and webmaster of this project.
They may not be used, housed or copied by any for-profit enterprise. Fair Use Doctrine allows for exerpting limited portions.

Robin Mace Barger - © 2013
Last Modified: