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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.
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Founded	1791
County Seat	Asheville
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

History

Parent County

1791--Buncombe County was created 5 December 1791 from Burke and Rutherford Counties. County seat: Asheville ^[1]

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

Church

Court

Education

• Black Mountain College collection - repository of publications and records of the college. Available via the North Carolina Digital Collections website.

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.

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Yearbooks

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

Societies and Libraries 

Web Sites

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

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).