Burke County, North Carolina, United States

Details for Burke County

Name

Burke County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Carolina, United States

County Seat

Morganton (Morganton Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		35.7667959		35° 46' 00.5" N
Longitude		-81.6998197		81° 41' 59.4" W

Population

75,744

Elevation

306 m

Surrounding Counties

Caldwell NE
Alexander E
Catawba E
Lincoln SE
Cleveland S
Rutherford SW
McDowell W
Mitchell NW
Avery NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1008539

Histopolis Place ID

489344599

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Burke County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1662 (6 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Burke County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Burke County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/Burke/cem/ (5 Jan 2009)

Burke County, North Carolina NC, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Burke County, North Carolina NC, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19146 (19 Nov 2008)

Burke County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_County,_North_Carolina (22 Aug 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Burke County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Burke County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/Burke/ (23 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Burke County, N.C. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Burke County, North Carolina Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Burke County, North Carolina
http://www.interment.net/us/nc/burke.htm (16 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Burke County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19146&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (8 Jan 2009)

Burke County, NC Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/burke/burkecemeteries.html (13 Jul 2010)

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Townships of Burke County

13 Townships

Drexel	Icard	Jonas Ridge	Linville
Lovelady	Lower Creek	Lower Fork	Morganton
Quaker Meadow	Silver Creek	Smoky Creek	Upper Creek
Upper Fork

Cities of Burke County

2 Cities, 8 Towns, 43 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Amherst	Bridgewater	Brindletown	Burkemont
Calvin	Camp Creek	Chambers (historical u.p.)	Chesterfield
Cold Springs	Collins (historical u.p.)	Connelly Springs (town)	Drexel (town)
Drowning Creek (historical u.p.)	Enola	Flat Gap	Glen Alpine (town)
Gold	Hardaway (historical u.p.)	Hatterbrond (historical u.p.)	Henry River
Hickory (city)	Hickory Grove (historical u.p.)	Hildebran (town)	Icard
Jonas Ridge	Linville	Longtown	Longview (town)
Magnolia	Morganton (city)	Oak Hill	Parkhill
Penelope	Perkinsville	Petche Gap	Petersburg
Piedmont Park Subdivision	Pine Mountain Lakes	Pleasant Grove	Pumpkin Center
Ramsey	Rhodhiss (town)	Rollins (historical u.p.)	Rutherford College (town)
Salem	Shoups Ford	Sunnyside	Table Rock
Tarkey Tail (historical u.p.)	Valdese (town)	Wisemans View	Worry
Yellow Gap

Cemeteries of Burke County

8 Cemeteries

Advent	Bost	Burke Memorial	Erwin
Liberty Church	Obeth	Parks	Pleasant Ridge

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