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About Yancey County
Yancey County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,470. Its county seat is Burnsville.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Yancey County at a glance
- County seat
- Burnsville
- Population
- 18,470 (2020)
- Land area
- 313 sq mi
- Founded
- 1833
Communities
Largest communities in Yancey County
- Burnsville Township4,491
- Crabtree Township3,381
- South Toe Township2,314
- Jacks Creek Township1,905
- Burnsville county seat1,614
History of Yancey County
The area of Yancey County was inhabited by the Cherokee prior to European settlement, as was much of the southern Appalachian region. Independent and sturdy Scottish, English, and Scotch-Irish and Irish settlers of the Carolina frontier had crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and settled the Toe River Valley by the mid-18th century. In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326,640 acres (1,321.9 km2) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County. In December 1833, the General Assembly established a new western county, named Yancey, from sections of Burke and Buncombe counties. Yancey County was named in honor of Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell County. As a U.S. congressman (1813–1817) and as Speaker of the N.C.
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