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Newland is a town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 715 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Avery County. [5] By elevation, Newland is the highest county seat located east of the Mississippi River. [6] [7]
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.
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.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
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 ...
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 townships of North Carolina. The U.S. state of North Carolina is divided into 1,035 townships in 100 ... Newland: Pasquotank: 2,791 Newland No. 1: Avery: 1,189 ...
According to Cherokee Indian legend, the name is derived from an Indian chief's daughter, named Estatoe (pronounced 'S - ta - toe'), who fell in love with a warrior of a rival tribe. Because their love could never be accepted by either's families, they jumped from a precipice into the depths of a nearby river.