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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 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 ...
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map.
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.
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]
Virginia state line: NC 16 (now NC 88) in Warrensville: 1930: 1937 First form; renumbered NC 162 NC 161: 10.6: 17.1 SC 161 at the South Carolina state line: NC 274 in Bessemer City: 1937: current Second form NC 162 — — Virginia state line: NC 88 in Warrensville: 1930: 1937 First form; replaced by NC 194: NC 162: 7.5: 12.1
NC 181 in North Carolina has three dedicated or memorialized sections of highway. Beatrice Cobb Highway - official name of all NC 181 in both Burke and Avery counties. It is named after Beatrice Cobb (1888–1959) who started her career early as a teacher and writer.