McDowell County, North Carolina, United States

Details for McDowell County

Name

McDowell County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Carolina, United States

County Seat

Marion (Marion Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		35.7001232		35° 42' 00.4" N
Longitude		-82.0498324		82° 02' 59.4" W

Population

35,681

Elevation

371 m

Surrounding Counties

Avery N
Burke E
Rutherford S
Buncombe W
Yancey NW
Mitchell N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1025836

Histopolis Place ID

300422883

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for McDowell County

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > McDowell County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > McDowell County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/McDowell/ (20 Apr 2010)

McDowell County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDowell_County,_North_Carolina (28 Jul 2010)

Cemeteries in or near McDowell County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19473&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (23 Dec 2008)

The Political Graveyard: McDowell 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/MW.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

McDowell County, North Carolina NC, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
McDowell 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=19473 (19 Nov 2008)

McDowell County, NC Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/mcdowell/mcdowellcemeteries.html (12 Jul 2010)

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1709 (29 Aug 2009)

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Townships of McDowell County

10 Townships

Brackett	Crooked Creek	Dysartsville	Glenwood
Higgins	Marion	Montford Cove	Nebo
North Cove	Old Fort

Cities of McDowell County

1 City, 1 Town, 36 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Armstrong (historical u.p.)	Ashford	Clinchfield	Coleman
Davistown	Dendron	Dysartsville	East Marion
Fero	Garden Creek	Glenwood	Graphite
Greenlee	Hankins	Jacktown	Lackey Town
Linville Falls	Little Switzerland	Marion (city)	Moffitt Hill
Mountain Home (historical u.p.)	Nebo	North Cove	North Cove Crossing
Old Fort (town)	Osborne Knob	Patten	Pleasant Gardens
Providence	Sevier	Stumptown	Sugar Hill
Sunnyvale	Toms Creek	Vein Mountain	West Marion
Wildacres	Woodlawn

Cemeteries of McDowell County

28 Cemeteries

Barnes	Biddix	Brackettown	Brown
Davistown	Dixon	Glades	Good
Green Mountain	Hall	Haney	Hollifield
Hoover	Lawing	Liberty	Lonon
McDowell Memorial Park	Neal	Nebo	Oak Grove
Pine Cove	Rocky Pass	Siloam Cemeteries	Snow Hill
Washburn	West Court	Wilson	Zion Hill

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