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The townships of North Carolina. The U.S. state of North Carolina is divided into 1,035 townships in 100 ... Union: 10,323 Bug Hill: Columbus: ... Cape Fear: Chatham ...
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]
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 238,267. [2] Its county seat is Monroe. [3] Union County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Woodrow Wilson giving his first State of the Union address on December 2, 1913. This was the first time since 1801 that such an address was made in person before a joint session of Congress, [1] initiating the modern trend with regard to the State of the Union address.
The Battle of Wilmington was fought February 11–22, 1865, during the American Civil War, mostly outside the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, between the opposing Union and Confederate Departments of North Carolina. The Union victory in January in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher meant that Wilmington, 30 miles upriver, could no longer be ...
It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River 's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point or Confederate Point and today is known as Pleasure Island .
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), South Carolina was the first Southern state to secede from the Union, [9] while North Carolina was the second to last state to secede. South Carolina was generally one of the strongest supporters of the Confederacy.
William S. Powell and Jay Mazzocchi, eds. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006) 1320pp; 2000 articles by 550 experts on all topics; ISBN 0-8078-3071-2; James Clay and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State (University of North Carolina Press, 1971).