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North Carolina Counties

North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh most counties in the country.

Columbus County, North Carolina

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

County Seat: Whiteville
Year Organized: 1808
Square Miles: 937

Court House:

111 Washington Street
County Courthouse
Whiteville, NC 28472-3323

Etymology - Origin of County Name

It was named in honor of the discoverer of the New World.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Columbus was formed in 1808 from Brunswick and Bladen. It was named in honor of the discoverer of the New World. It is in the southeastern section of the State and is bounded by the state of South Carolina and Robeson, Bladen, Pender and Brunswick counties. The present land area is 936.80 square miles and the 2000 population was 54,749. In 1810 Whiteville was laid out on James B. White's land and the public buildings were ordered to be erected there. Whiteville is the county seat.

Neighboring Counties:

State of South Carolina
Robeson
Bladen
Pender
Brunswick

Cities and Towns:

- Boardman	town	Incorporated Area
- Bolton	town	Incorporated Area
- Brunswick	town	Incorporated Area
- Cerro Gordo	town	Incorporated Area
- Chadbourn	town	Incorporated Area
- Fair Bluff	town	Incorporated Area
- Lake Waccamaw	town	Incorporated Area
- Sandyfield	town	Incorporated Area
- Tabor City	town	Incorporated Area
- Whiteville (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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."