Watauga County, North Carolina, United States

Details for Watauga County

Name

Watauga County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Carolina, United States

County Seat

Boone (New River Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		36.2334614		36° 14' 00.5" N
Longitude		-81.6998305		81° 41' 59.4" W

Population

36,952

Elevation

1,423 m

Surrounding Counties

Ashe NE
Wilkes E
Caldwell SE
Avery SW
Carter (Tennessee) W
Johnson (Tennessee) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1008594

Histopolis Place ID

464915754

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Watauga County

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

The Political Graveyard: Watauga 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/WT.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1745 (30 Aug 2009)

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

Watauga County, NC Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/watauga/wataugacemeteries.html (10 Jul 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Watauga County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Carolina > Watauga County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/Watauga/ (20 Dec 2009)

Watauga County, North Carolina NC, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Watauga 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=19740 (19 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Watauga County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19740&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (1 Jan 2009)

Watauga County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watauga_County,_North_Carolina (10 Aug 2010)

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Townships of Watauga County

15 Townships

Bald Mountain	Beaverdam	Blowing Rock	Blue Ridge
Boone	Brushy Fork	Cove Creek	Elk
Laurel Creek	Meat Camp	New River	North Fork
Shawneehaw	Stony Fork	Watauga

Cities of Watauga County

4 Towns, 62 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Aho	Amantha	Ansley Heights	Bamboo
Beech Mountain (town)	Bethel	Blairmont	Blowing Rock (town)
Boone (town)	Boone Fork	Brookside (historical u.p.)	Dougherty Heights
Echo Park	Forest Grove	Foscoe	Grandview Heights
Grave Yard (historical u.p.)	Green Hill	Hemlock Ridge	Hillcrest
Hodges Gap	Hogetown	Hounds Ear	Kellerville
Kelsey	Laurel Park	Laxon	Leander
Lovill	Mabel	Matney	Mayview Park
Meat Camp	Mill Ridge	Moretz	New River Heights
Norris (historical u.p.)	North Fork	Oak Grove	Penley (historical u.p.)
Peoria	Perkinsville	Poplar Grove	Pottertown
Powderhorn Mountain	Reese	Rominger	Rutherwood
Sands	Seven Devils (town)	Sherwood	Shulls Mill
Silverstone	Ski Mountain	Soda Hill	Solo
Sorrento Skies	Stony Fork	Sugar Grove	Sweetwater
Triplett	Valle Crucis	Valley Creek	Vilas
Watauga Falls (historical u.p.)	Zionville

Cemeteries of Watauga County

74 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Antioch	Baird	Baldwin
Barnes	Beaverdam	Brown	Brown
Byrd	Byrd	Calloway	Church
Coffey	Combs	Cone	Cook
Cool Springs	Cove Creek	Craig	Culler
Danner	Edmisten	Edmisten	Elrod
Farthing	Frye	Gragg (Brushy Fork Township)	Gragg (Meat Camp Township)
Green	Greene (Beaverdam Township)	Greene (Meat Camp Township)	Greer (Brushy Fork Township)
Greer (North Fork Township)	Hartley	Hayes (Boone, Boone Township)	Hayes (New River Township)
Henson Chapel	Hicks	Hodges	Hollars
Horton	Howell	Jestes	Laurel Fork
Maine	Mast (Laurel Creek Township)	Mast (Watauga Township)	McLean
Michael	Miller	Moore	Moretz
Mount Lawn	Mt. Lawn (*)	Old Hopewell	Piny Grove
Pitts	Pitts	Pleasant	Shook
Shull	Shull	Shull (*)	Skyland
Smith	Thomas	Vannoy	Wallace
Ward	White	White Spring	Williams
Wilson	Winkler	Woodlawn	Yates

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