County	Founded	Parent County
Alamance	1849	Orange
Albemarle	1664, original county subdivided 1668, discontinued 1689	-
Historic Albemarle
Alexander	1847	Iredell, Caldwell, and Wilkes
Alleghany	1859	Ashe
Anson	1750	Bladen
Archdale	1705	Bath became Craven in 1712
Ashe	1799	Wilkes
Avery	1911	Caldwell, Mitchell and Watauga
Bath	1696	Original County subdivided 1705 also see Beaufort
Historic Bath
Beaufort	1712	renamed from Bath/Pamptecough
Bertie	1722	Chowan
Bladen	1734	New Hanover
Brunswick	1764	New Hanover and Bladen
Buncombe	1791	Burke and Rutherford
Burke	1777	Rowan
Bute	1764	from Granville, became Franklin and Warren in 1779
Cabarrus	1792	Mecklenburg
Caldwell	1841	Burke and Wilkes
Camden	1777	Pasquotank
Carteret	1722	Craven
Caswell	1777	Orange
Catawba	1842	Lincoln
Chatham	1771	Orange
Cherokee	1839	Macon
Cherokee Reservation also called Qualla Boundary	-	-
Chowan	1670	Albemarle
Clay	1861	Cherokee
Cleveland	1841	Rutherford and Lincoln
Columbus	1808	Bladen and Brunswick
Craven	1712	renamed from Archdale Precinct of Bath County
Cumberland	1754	Bladen
Currituck	1681	Albemarle
Dare	1870	Currituck, Tyrrell and Hyde
Davidson	1822	Rowan
Davie	1836	Rowan
Dobbs	1758	from Johnston became Glasgow and Lenoir in 1791
Duplin	1750	New Hanover
Durham	1881	Orange and Wake
Edgecombe	1741	Bertie
Forsyth	1849	Stokes
Franklin	1779	Bute
Gaston	1846	Lincoln
Gates	1779	Chowan, Hertford and Perquimans
Glasgow	1791	from Dobbs, became Greene in 1799
Graham	1872	Cherokee
Granville	1746	Edgecombe
Greene	1799	renamed from Glasgow
Guilford	1770	Rowan and Orange
Halifax	1758	Edgecombe
Harnett	1855	Cumberland
Haywood	1808	Buncombe
Henderson	1838	Buncombe
Hertford	1759	Bertie, Chowan, and Northampton
Hoke	1911	Cumberland and Robeson
Hyde	1705	from Bath, as Wickham Precinct; became Hyde in 1712
Iredell	1788	Rowan
Jackson	1851	Haywood and Macon
Johnston	1746	Craven
Jones	1778	Craven
Lee	1907	Chatham and Moore
Lenoir	1791	Dobbs
Lincoln	1779	Tryon
Macon	1828	Haywood
Madison	1851	Buncombe and Yancey
Martin	1774	Halifax and Tyrrell
McDowell	1842	Burke and Rutherford
Mecklenburg 1762, from Anson
Mitchell	1861	Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Watauga and Yancey
Montgomery	1779	Anson
Moore	1784	Cumberland
Nash	1777	Edgecombe
New Hanover	1729	Craven
Northampton	1741	Bertie
Onslow	1734	New Hanover
Orange	1752	Bladen, Granville, and Johnston
Pamlico	1872	Beaufort and Craven
Pasquotank	1681	Albemarle
Pender	1875	New Hanover
Perquimans	1679	Albemarle
Person	1791	Caswell
Pitt	1760	Beaufort
Polk	1855	Henderson and Rutherford
Randolph	1779	Guilford
Richmond	1779	Anson
Robeson	1787	Bladen
Rockingham	1785	Guilford
Rowan	1753	Anson
Rutherford	1779	Burke and Tryon
Sampson	1784	Duplin
Scotland	1899	Richmond
Stanly	1841	Montgomery
Stokes	1789	Surry
Surry	1770	Rowan
Swain	1871	Jackson and Macon
Transylvania	1861	Henderson and Jackson
Tryon	1769	from Mecklenburg became Lincoln and Rutherford in 1779
Tyrrell	1729	Bertie, Chowan, Currituck and Pasquotank
Union	1842	Anson and Mecklenburg
Vance	1881	Franklin, Granville, and Warren
Wake	1771	Cumberland, Johnston and Orange
Warren	1779	Bute
Washington	1799	Tyrrell
Watauga	1849	Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes, and Yancey
Wayne	1779	Dobbs
Wilkes	1778	Surry
Wilson	1855	Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash and Wayne
Yadkin	1850	Surry
Yancey	1833	Buncombe and Burke