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Newland is a town in and the county seat of Avery County, North Carolina, United States. [5] The population was 715 at the 2020 census . By elevation, Newland is the highest county seat located east of the Mississippi River .
Avery County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,806. [1] The county seat is Newland. [2] The county seat was initially established in Elk Park when the county was first formed, but was moved to Newland upon completion of the courthouse in 1912.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The location of the State of North Carolina in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of North Carolina. Wikipedia:WikiProject North Carolina Category:Top-importance North Carolina articles are indicated.
Capital of the British Province of North Carolina. 1776: Capital of the State of North Carolina. Rocky Mount: 1790: Capitals of the Territory South of the River Ohio. White's Fort Knoxville: 1791 1796: Capital of the State of Tennessee. Kingston: 1807: Capital of the State of Tennessee for one day in 1807 to fulfill treaty obligations with the ...
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. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.