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Cleveland County, North Carolina

Cleveland County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Shelby
Year Organized: 1841
Square Miles: 464
 		 Court House:

PO Box 1210
County Courthouse
Shelby, NC 28151-1210
Etymology - Origin of County Name

It was named in honor of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a noted partisan leader of the western Carolina frontier and one of the heroes at Kings Mountain.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Cleveland was formed in 1841 from Rutherford and Lincoln. It was named in honor of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a noted partisan leader of the western Carolina frontier and one of the heroes at Kings Mountain. It is in the southwestern section of the state and is bounded by the state of South Carolina and Rutherford, Burke, Lincoln, and Gaston counties. The present land area is 464.63 square miles and the 2000 population was 96,287. The first court was ordered to be held at the home of William Weathers. At this court the justices were to obtain a place to hold future courts until a courthouse was erected. Commissioners were named to acquire land and lay out a town by the name of Shelby where the courthouse and jail were to be located. In 1887 an act was passed changing the spelling of Cleveland from "Cleaveland county" to "Cleveland county." Shelby was incorporated in 1843 and is the county seat.

 

Neighboring Counties:
  • State of South Carolina
  • Rutherford
  • Burke
  • Lincoln
  • Gaston
Cities and Towns:
- Belwood town Incorporated Area
- Boiling Springs town Incorporated Area
- Casar town Incorporated Area
- Earl town Incorporated Area
- Fallston town Incorporated Area
- Grover town Incorporated Area
- Kings Mountain city Incorporated Area
- Kingstown town Incorporated Area
- Lattimore town Incorporated Area
- Lawndale town Incorporated Area
- Mooresboro town Incorporated Area
- Patterson Springs town Incorporated Area
- Polkville city Incorporated Area
- Shelby (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Waco town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

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