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About Vance County
Vance County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,578. Its county seat is Henderson. Vance County comprises the Henderson, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Vance County at a glance
- County seat
- Henderson
- Population
- 42,578 (2020)
- Land area
- 270 sq mi
- Founded
- 1881
Communities
Largest communities in Vance County
- Henderson county seat15,060
- South Henderson988
- Kittrell132
- Middleburg101
History of Vance County
The Occaneechi Native Americans were the first inhabitants of what became Vance County in 1881. The first white explorer of the region was John Lederer and his Native American guide in 1670. Originally part of colony of Virginia, King Charles of England redrew the colony lines in 1665, so what is now Vance County became part of the Province of Carolina and then the Province of North Carolina in 1725. In 1826, the first armed forces academy, the Bingham School, was built by Captain D. H. Bingham in Williamsborough, North Carolina. It served for a short time as a training school for military officers. In 1871, a hotel called the "Glass House" was opened near the community of Kittrell. It was so named because of the glass porches surrounding the hotel. It was a popular resort for hunters and later tuberculosis patients until it burned down in 1895.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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