The county histories are from:
Corbitt, David L. The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943. Second printing. Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1969.
Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Land areas and 2000 populations are from the US Bureau of the Census. Please see http://factfinder.census.gov or http://census.state.nc.us to find out more.
