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Buncombe County, North Carolina
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Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1791
County Seat	Asheville
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

Buncombe County Courthouse
69 Court Plaza Run 110
Asheville, NC 28801-3519

Court house burned 1830-1835
Reg of Deeds has b, m, d. bur & land records
Clk Sup Ct has div & pro rec from 1832 & Ct Rec^[1]

History

Parent County

1791--Buncombe County was created 5 December 1791 from Burke and Rutherford Counties. County seat: Asheville ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1830, 1865--The courthouse fires destroyed many court records.

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Haywood
• Henderson
• Madison
• McDowell
• Rutherford
• Transylvania
• Yancey

Resources

Cemeteries

• Buncombe County Cemetery Census

BillionGraves (Headstone photos, Google maps, searchable database both by cemetery and sitewide):

• Patton Cemetery, Swannatoa
• Western North Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, Black Mountain
• Woodlawn Cemetery, Ashville

Census

For tips on accessing Buncombe County, North Carolina census records online, see: North Carolina Census.

Church Records

Baptist

• French Broad River, near Mills River, N.C. Organized before 1792.^[3] Later located in Henderson County.

Court

Education

• Black Mountain College collection - repository of publications and records of the college. Available via the North Carolina Digital Collections website.
• Montreat College Yearbooks: 1925-1959 -- free at the Internet Archive

• Buncombe County students at NC colleges - list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Family Histories

• [Gash] Rising, Marsha Hoffman. "The Gash Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina: Who Was Ebenezer Gash of St. Clair County, Missouri?," The American Genealogist, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr. 1998):105-116. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War Confederate units - Brief history, counties where recruited, etc.

-1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, usually known as the Bethel Regiment.

-11th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry

Newspapers

Probate

• 1831-1961 - Will Books A to GGG (1831-1961) have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers 
• Asheville North Carolina Family History Center

Web Sites

• Asheville and Buncombe County Weblog
• Buncombe County NC GenWeb
• Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Buncombe County, North Carolina p. 507. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ "French Broad Baptist Church," North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, http://www.ncmarkers.com, accessed 22 October 2012; George Washington Paschal, History of North Carolina Baptists, 2 vols. (1930; reprint, Gallatin, Tenn.: Church History Research and Archives, 1990), 2:561. FHL Book 975.6 K2p 1990.