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Jacksonville is a city in Onslow County, North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 72,723, which makes Jacksonville the 14th-most populous city in North Carolina . [ 7 ] Jacksonville is the county seat and most populous community of Onslow County, which is coterminous with the Jacksonville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
North Carolina is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land.
Onslow County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 204,576. [1] Its county seat is Jacksonville. [2] The county was created in 1734 as Onslow Precinct and gained county status in 1739. [3] Onslow County comprises the Jacksonville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Jacksonville: 213,676 11 249 Burlington: 179,165 12 ... New Bern–Morehead City: 193,830 ... List of metropolitan areas of North Carolina.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated nine combined statistical areas, 15 metropolitan statistical areas, and 24 micropolitan statistical areas in North Carolina. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA , comprising the state's largest city of Charlotte and its suburbs.
Map of North Carolina area codes. Area codes 910 and 472 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southeastern North Carolina. The area codes form an overlay for a numbering plan area (NPA) that includes the cities of Wilmington, Jacksonville, Laurinburg, Lumberton and Fayetteville. Area code 910 was established ...
Richlands is a town in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 2,287. [4] It is included in the Jacksonville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Incorporated on March 29, 1880, it was the first town in Onslow County to have its own library and museum (home of the Onslow County Museum ...
North Carolina's early economy was built upon cash crops, fisheries and turpentine industries. Early East Carolinians lived on settlements at the mouths of the various rivers. Settlers to the regions were of English, Scottish, Swiss and German descent. Eastern North Carolina was a haven for pirating and home to the infamous pirate Blackbeard.