This service provides vector polygon dataset defining the official boundaries of the 100 counties within North Carolina as well as the boundaries between North Carolina and the states which border North Carolina.The North Carolina county polygon boundary service provides location information for North Carolina State and County Boundary lines derived from the best available survey and/or Geographic Information System (GIS) data. Sources for information are the North Carolina Geodetic Survey (NCGS), NC Department of Transportation (NCDOT), United States Geological Survey (USGS), and field surveys conducted by licensed surveyors in North Carolina and neighboring states that have been approved and recorded in their respective counties. Some boundaries cannot be surveyed in cases where boundaries are coincident with river centers. North Carolina Geodetic Survey assists counties on a cooperative basis (NC General Statute 153A-18) in defining and monumenting the location of uncertain or disputed boundaries as established by law. Some counties have completed boundary surveys for at least a portion of their county boundary. However, the majority of county boundaries have not been surveyed and are represented by the best currently available data from GIS sources, including NCDOT county maps (which originally came from the USGS) and updated county parcel maps.This data is updated annually, first quarter (usually in February).MetadataThe metadata for the contained layer of the NCDOT County Boundaries Service is available through the following link:County Boundaries PolygonPoint of Contact North Carolina Department of Information Technology -Transportation, GIS UnitGIS Data and Services ConsultantContact information:gishelp@ncdot.govCentury Center – Building B1020 Birch Ridge DriveRaleigh, NC 27610Hours of service: 9:00am - 5:00pm Monday – FridayContact instructions: Please send an email with any issues, questions, or comments regarding the County Boundaries data. If it is an immediate need, please indicate as such in the subject line in an email.NCDOT GIS Unit GO! NC Product Team

Historical population as enumerated and corrected from 1790 through 2020. North Carolina was one of the 13 original States and by the time of the 1790 census had essentially its current boundaries. The Census is mandated by the United States Constitution and was first completed for 1790. The population has been counted every ten years hence, with some limitations. In 1790 census coverage included most of the State, except for areas in the west, parts of which were not enumerated until 1840. The population for 1810 includes Walton County, enumerated as part of Georgia although actually within North Carolina. Historical populations shown here reflect the population of the respective named county and not necessarily the population of the area of the county as it was defined for a particular census. County boundaries shown in maps reflect boundaries as defined in 2020. Historic boundaries for some counties may include additional geographic areas or may be smaller than the current geographic boundaries. Notes below list the county or counties with which the population of a currently defined county were enumerated historically (Current County: Population counted in). The current 100 counties have been in place since the 1920 Census, although some modifications to the county boundaries have occurred since that time. For historical county boundaries see: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project (newberry.org)County Notes: Note 1: Total for 1810 includes population (1,026) of Walton County, reported as a Georgia county but later determined to be situated in western North Carolina. Total for 1890 includes 2 Indians in prison, not reported by county. Note 2: Alexander: *Iredell, Burke, Wilkes. Note 3: Avery: *Caldwell, Mitchell, Watauga. Note 4: Buncombe: *Burke, Rutherford; see also note 22. Note 5: Caldwell: *Burke, Wilkes, Yancey. Note 6: Cleveland: *Rutherford, Lincoln. Note 7: Columbus: *Bladen, Brunswick. Note 8: Dare: *Tyrrell, Currituck, Hyde. Note 9: Hoke: *Cumberland, Robeson. Note 10: Jackson: *Macon, Haywood. Note 11: Lee: *Moore, Chatham. Note 12: Lenoir: *Dobbs (Greene); Craven. Note 13: McDowell: *Burke, Rutherford. Note 14: Madison: *Buncombe, Yancey. Note 15: Mitchell: *Yancey, Watauga. Note 16: Pamlico: *Craven, Beaufort. Note 17: Polk: *Rutherford, Henderson. Note 18: Swain: *Jackson, Macon. Note 19: Transylvania: *Henderson, Jackson. Note 20: Union: *Mecklenburg, Anson. Note 21: Vance: *Granville, Warren, Franklin. Note 22: Walton: Created in 1803 as a Georgia county and reported in 1810 as part of Georgia; abolished after a review of the State boundary determined that its area was located in North Carolina. By 1820 it was part of Buncombe County. Note 23: Watauga: *Ashe, Yancey, Wilkes; Burke. Note 24: Wilson: *Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne, Johnston. Note 25: Yancey: *Burke, Buncombe. Note 26: Alleghany: *Ashe. Note 27: Haywood: *Buncombe. Note 28: Henderson: *Buncombe. Note 29: Person: Caswell. Note 30: Clay: Cherokee. Note 31: Graham: Cherokee. Note 32: Harnett: Cumberland. Note 33: Macon: Haywood.

Note 34: Catawba: Lincoln. Note 35: Gaston: Lincoln. Note 36: Cabarrus: Mecklenburg.
Note 37: Stanly: Montgomery. Note 38: Pender: New Hanover. Note 39: Alamance: Orange.
Note 40: Durham: Orange, Wake. Note 41: Scotland: Richmond. Note 42: Davidson: Rowan. Note 43: Davie: Rowan.Note 44: Forsyth: Stokes. Note 45: Yadkin: Surry.
Note 46: Washington: Tyrrell.Note 47: Ashe: Wilkes. Part III. Population of Counties, Earliest Census to 1990The 1840 population of Person County, NC should be 9,790. The 1840 population of Perquimans County, NC should be 7,346.

This data set is a collection of points representing the locations of historic places wholly within the County of Carteret (North Carolina) political boundary. The locations were mapped using information from the National Register of Historic Places. The data were created in November of 2014 by the GIS Division of the Carteret County IT Department.

This collection comprises geospatial datasets used to create the Beaverdam Valley Neighborhood Association community map and the resulting map in pdf and jpeg formats. This scope of the map covers the borders of Buncombe County, North Carolina, the city limits of Asheville, NC, and the three registered neighborhoods of the Beaverdam Valley (Beaverdam Valley, Hills of Beaverdam, and Beaverdam Run). The geospatial data includes the following layers and associated files:

"AVL City Limits.geojson": City of Asheville GIS municipal boundary data

"AVL City Limits.qmd": QGIS metadata file for the above

"AVL Neighborhoods.geojson": City of Asheville GIS registered neighborhood data

"AVL Neighborhoods.qmd": QGIS metadata file for the above

"Buncombe_County_Parcels.geojson": Buncombe County GIS parcel data.

"Buncombe_County_Parcels.qmd": QGIS metadata file for the above

"BV Boundaries.geojson": Beaverdam Valley Neighborhood boundaries.

"BV Boundaries.qmd": QGIS metadata file for the above

"BV Parcel Intersection.geojson": Intersection of the Beverdam Valley Neighborhood boundaries with the Buncombe County Parcel data.

"BV Parcel Intersection.qmd": QGIS metadata file for the above

"BVNA_Map_2022_v2.pdf": BVNA CIP Community Map

"BVNA_Map_2022_v2_825.jpg": BVNA CIP Community Map

"City Limits.geojson": Buncombe county boundaries and city limits boundaries witin the county.

"QGIS BVNA CIP.zip": Zip file containing the above layers in a QGIS project folder and file.

About the Project: The Beaverdam Valley Neighborhood Association (BVNA) Community Informatics Project aims to gain deeper understanding of the Beaverdam Valley community and to work towards gathering and sharing information about the community and its history. This collection represents a deliverable produced under the 2022-2023 City of Asheville Neighborhood Matching Grant program.

The Town of Apex was incorporated in 1873. N.C.G.S. 160A-22 requires current city boundaries to be drawn at all times on a map. This statute also requires that all alterations to the boundaries (annexations) be indicated on the map. This shapefiles depicts all individual additions to the boundaries of the Town of Apex corporate limits. Additions to the boundary occur a maximum of twice a month as the Town Council approves annexation requests from property owners. Boundary locations are based on legal descriptions referenced in the approved annexation ordinances recorded with the Town, Wake County, and North Carolina Secretary of State. Older annexations may not match with more recent annexations due to datum changes and variations in survey accuracy.

This publication contains a georeferenced 1936 map of a control survey by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the United States Geologic Survey, the United States Forest Service and other surveys. It was surveyed from 1933 to 1936 under the supervision of the Forest Supervisor. Four inch (4") field sheets were prepared from aerial and ground surveys and reduced at the regional office in Atlanta, GA. The map was traced in 1935 and 1936.This map indicates property ownership in Berkeley County, South Carolina in 1936 and includes the area of the Santee Experimental Forest (SEF).The map has been georeferenced so that other SEF spatial data can be overlaid on the map in a GIS program. The SEF is located in the southeastern portion of the map, as the rest of the ownership parcels are within Berkeley County.

Spatial Dataset used to display historical census data using Census 2010 Tract boundaries in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. This dataset includes attributes such as population in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010.

These data were collected to reconstruct spatially explicit land use/land cover change trajectories that were temporally consistent and at very high accuracies for a selection of watersheds in Macon County, NC: Cartoogechaye, Coweeta, Skeenah and Watauga. Buildings (points) and roads (lines) were digitized from historic maps and aerial photographs and aligned where necessary for temporal consistency. Land cover was simultaneously classified across all years for each 25x25m pixel (1/16 ha) in order to maximize temporal consistency.

The purpose of this file is to show the individually registered properties within the National Register Historic District (NRHD) for the Town of Apex, NC, as approved by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. The original NRHD was approved 3/17/1994. Subsequent boundaries were approved as Boundary Increase I (3/10/1995), Boundary Increase II (2/14/2002), and Boundary Increase III (1/31/2008). Combined, the overall NRHD encompasses almost 200 properties in downtown Apex and over 200 structures. Dates of construction and ownership histories were determined by Wake County Historic Property inventory files at the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office and by deeds listed with the Wake County Register of Deeds Office. All buildings are categorized as either contributing or non-contributing based on set criteria, such as being constructed during the period of significance ending in 1959. Any building constructed after the period of significance, or altered in a way that causes loss of architectural integrity, is categorized as non-contributing. The numbers assigned to each property corresponds with the sequential order of each property listed on the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form.

North Carolina Effective Flood zones: In 2000, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated North Carolina a Cooperating Technical Partner State, formalizing an agreement between FEMA and the State to modernize flood maps. This partnership resulted in creation of the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program (NCFMP). As a CTS, the State assumed primary ownership and responsibility of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for all North Carolina communities as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This project includes conducting flood hazard analyses and producing updated, Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs). Floodplain management is a process that aims to achieve reduced losses due to flooding. It takes on many forms, but is realized through a series of federal, state, and local programs and regulations, in concert with industry practice, to identify flood risk, implement methods to protect man-made development from flooding, and protect the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains. FIRMs are the primary tool for state and local governments to mitigate areas of flooding. Individual county databases can be downloaded from https://fris.nc.gov Updated Sep 19th, 2025.

This report will discuss the results of a cultural resources visit and assessment conducted on the Poinsett Weapons Range, North Carolina. Poinsett Range is a contractor managed support facility for Shaw Air Force Base and encompasses an area of approximately 8358 acres. It is contained within the boundaries of Manchester State Park just south of the town of Wedgefield, South Carolina in Sumter County and is currently leased from the State by the federal government. The site visit was conducted in conjunction with a larger environmental unpact study being prepared for the planned upgrade performed for the planned upgrade and expansion of the range facility. A systematic cultural resources sample survey of the project area was implemented in the fall of 1982 by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS) of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania (Brown et al. 1983) under contract with the United States Air Force (Shaw Air Force Base). Approximately 15 percent of the range was investigated through a quadrat sampling scheme that was stratified on the basis of a site locational predictive model. Seventeen archeological sites were identified as a consequence of the survey. The objectives of the current site visit were to (1) update the status of these sites, (2) assess the likelihood for the area of potential effect (APE) to contain cultural resources eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and (3) develop areas that will be directly affected by the planned development. John Cable of NSA served as Principal Investigator for the project, which was implemented in the field on November 18th and 19th, 1992.

This map shows the NC Mining Permits which includes the Pending, Active, Inactive, Release, and Revoked Mining permits in North Carolina. There is additional information within the dataset that includes commodity type, and permitted acres. Each permit is labeled with the permittee and the name of the mine.List of Layers:NC Mining PermitsContacts:Data and Map Contact: Adam Parr (adam.parr@ncdenr.gov)Data is maintained by North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources, Mining Program.

Site 38BU19 is a large prehistoric site located on Callawassie Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The two most pronounced features of 38BU19 is a burial mound and numerous shell middens scattered across the site; it has been assumed that the shell middens represent the remains of an associated village. The research potential of the site has been recognized for over 100 years, and the site has been recommended as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, at the national level of significance. Several archaeological investigations have been conducted on various portions of 38BU19, including partial excavation of the mound itself. The field excavations and analyses discussed in this report focus on the portion of 38BU19 north of the burial mound, on the north side of Spring Island Drive; this area is referred to as the Marsh Lots. The Callawassie Development Corporation, in conjunction with the State Historic Preservation Office and Brockington and Associates, Inc., promoted a data recovery plan at 38BU19 that has incorporated archaeological research, preservation, and educational outreach. A preliminary assessment of 38BU19 identified 21 discrete shell midden loci; on the north side of Spring Island Drive and on the south side. The data recovery excavations discussed in this report focused on five midden loci (Middens 14, 15, 16, 17, and 20) on the north side of Spring Island Drive. The research orientation addressed a number of topics dealing with site occupational chronology, site layout as evidenced through cultural features, ritual and communal activities, subsistence activities, craft specialization, and vessel assemblage characterizations. One of the important findings of this research is that early assessments of 38BU19 as a Woodland mound and village needs revising. Diagnostic ceramics indicate relatively significant Early Woodland (Deptford) and Mississippian (Irene) as phase components at the northern part of the site. This indicates that the site boundaries include multiple occupations dating from different prehistoric periods. Thus, the large site boundary is not viewed as the result of contemporaneous occupations in a village setting, but rather a conglomeration of various occupations spanning up to 2,000 years. One of the objectives of the field investigations was to identify structural features and patterns; unfortunately, none were identified. This may be because of on site disturbances which have obliterated these patterns, or it may be that prehistoric construction techniques were such that little subsurface patterning would be evident. Another goal of the investigation at 38BU19' was to provide the general public with an awareness of the significance of the archeological potential at 38BU19. A series of public seminars Another goal of the investigation at 38BU19' was to provide the general public with an awareness of the significance of the archeological potential at 38BU19. A series of public seminars was given at the Callawassie Club House, with Mr. Espenshade and Mr. Southerlin as speakers. The seminars were advertised in the local newspaper and non-Callawassie residents were invited to attend. The seminars were videotaped and will be made available for viewing by interested parties by the Callawassie Development Corporation. Personnel from a local educational television channel (WJWJ) from Beaufort visited the site and filmed in-progress excavations. This was aired several times during that week as part of local news broadcasts. A strong emphasis was also placed on getting the public directly involved with the archaeological investigation at 38BU19. Visitors to the site were welcomed and every effort was made to answer their questions about the site and archaeology in general. A number of individuals even braved the heat and insects to volunteer their services in the field.

This maps shows and explains the location and differences between different flood zones. For more information regarding flood zones visit the FEMA website.FEMA Link: https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps