Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States

Details for Mitchell County

Name

Mitchell County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Carolina, United States

County Seat

Bakersville (Bakersville Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		36.0167859		36° 01' 00.4" N
Longitude		-82.1331782		82° 07' 59.4" W

Population

14,433

Elevation

806 m

Surrounding Counties

Avery NE
Burke SE
McDowell S
Yancey SW
Unicoi (Tennessee) W
Carter (Tennessee) N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1008571

Histopolis Place ID

103801362

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Mitchell County

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

The Political Graveyard: Mitchell 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/MI.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Mitchell County, North Carolina County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Mitchell County, North Carolina, NC - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19484 (17 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Mitchell County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19484&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (18 Dec 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Mitchell County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Mitchell County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/Mitchell/ (10 Jan 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=1711 (25 Aug 2009)

Mitchell County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_County,_North_Carolina (20 Aug 2010)

Mitchell County, NC Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/mitchcem.html (12 Dec 2009)

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Townships of Mitchell County

13 Townships

Bakersville	Bradshaw	Cane Creek	Fork Mountain (historical township)
Fork Mountain-Little Rock Creek	Grassy Creek	Grassy Creek Number 1 (historical township)	Grassy Creek Number 2 (historical township)
Harrell	Little Rock Creek (historical township)	Poplar	Red Hill
Snow Creek

Cities of Mitchell County

2 Towns, 45 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Altapass	Bailey	Bakersville (town)	Bandana
Boonford	Buladean	Clarrissa	Cloudland (historical u.p.)
Cooktown	Ephraim Place	Estatoe	Ewart (historical u.p.)
Glen Ayre	Glenlaurel	Grassy Creek	Greene Cove
Harrell Hill	Hawk	Herrell (historical u.p.)	Honeycutt
Huntdale	Kalmia	Kona	Ledger
Little Rock Creek (historical u.p.)	Loafers Glory	Lunday	McKinney Cove
Minpro	Normanville	Penland	Peppers
Peterson	Pigeonroost	Poplar	Red Hill
Relief	Richlands	Spruce Pine (town)	Strawberry Ridge
Tipton Hill	Toecane	Upper Pigeonroost	Upper Poplar
Webb	Whitson	Wing

Cemeteries of Mitchell County

66 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bad Creek	Bailey (Bakersville Township)	Bailey (Grassy Creek Township)	Bakersville
Blalock	Blevins	Buchanan (Bakersville Township)	Buchanan (Bakersville Township)
Buchanan (Cane Creek Township)	Buchanan (Fork Mountain-Little Rock Creek Township)	Burleson (Cane Creek Township)	Burleson (Fork Mountain-Little Rock Creek Township)
Burnett	Butler	Butler	Byrd (Bakersville Township)
Byrd (Red Hill Township)	Campbell	Campbell (*)	Collis
Conley	Cook (Fork Mountain-Little Rock Creek Township)	Cook (Grassy Creek Township)	Cox
Davenport	Edwards	Francis	Frazier
Garland	Gouge (Bakersville Township)	Gouge (Snow Creek Township)	Green Young
Gurley	Harrell	Hill	Hobson
Hobson	Hughes	Ingram	Johnson
Ledford (Bakersville Township)	Ledford (Harrell Township)	Major	McHone
McKinney (Bakersville Township)	McKinney (Grassy Creek Township)	McKinney (Grassy Creek Township)	Pendley
Penland	Phillips (Red Hill Township)	Phillips (Spruce Pine, Grassy Creek Township)	Rebels Creek
Roan Mountain Cemetery Number 2	Roan Valley	Silver	Silvers
Slagle	Spruce Pine Memorial	Stafford	Stanley
Street	Street	Street	Thomas
Tolley	Whitson	Wilson

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