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History. Law and government. Big roads. Connected counties. Cities and towns. References. Other websites. Buncombe County, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35°36′34″N 82°31′50″W. Buncombe County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2020, 269,452 people lived there. [1] . Its county seat is Asheville . History.
Asheville ( / ˈæʃvɪl / ASH-vil) is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. [7] Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, it is the most populous city in Western North Carolina, and the state's 11th-most-populous city. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was ...
Buncombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is classified within Western North Carolina. The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452, making it the 7th-most populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Asheville. Buncombe County is part of the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sources. Home to the city of Asheville and the Biltmore Estate, Buncombe County was founded in 1791, and it is named in honor of the Revolutionary Colonel Edward Buncombe. The county is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and its history and culture attractions are well-known.
A Time before “Buncombe”. Archaeologists believe that for thousands of years various Indigenous peoples and cultures have made their homes in western North Carolina. The earliest evidence of permanent human settlement in the region dates to approximately 8000 BCE 1. The geographic region that is now Buncombe County was home to many ...
Buncombe County, nicknamed "Land of the Sky" for its rugged mountain beauty, is located in the Mountain region of western North Carolina. Buncombe's land includes parts of the Great Craggy Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains, and a section of the Eastern Continental Divide passes through it.
Contents. hide. Beginning. List of counties in North Carolina. Map of counties in North Carolina. References. List of counties in North Carolina. The U.S. state of North Carolina is divided up into 100 counties . List of counties in North Carolina. Map of counties in North Carolina. Counties of North Carolina. References.
