Burke County, North Carolina

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Burke County, North Carolina
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Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1777
County Seat	Morganton
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

History

Parent County

1777--Burke County was created 8 April 1777 from Rowan County. County seat: Morganton ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1865--Many court records and most land records burned by Federal troops.

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Avery
• Caldwell
• Catawba
• Cleveland
• Lincoln
• Mcdowell
• Rutherford

Resources

Cemeteries

• Burke County cemetery listings at FindAGrave -user-submitted burial records
• Burke County cemeteries - compilation of resources on the Burke County, NCGenWeb site
• NC Tombstone Transcription Project - Burke county cemeteries

Census

• Census records on the NCGenWeb Archives

Court

• Burke County court records at the NCGenWeb Archives

Education

• Book: The North Carolina School for the Deaf at Morganton, 1894-1944 (1945) - free online
• Burke County students at NC colleges - list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Land

• Deeds 1855-1985 -- Search on the Burke County Register of Deeds website
• Deeds of Burke County -- NCGenWeb Archives

Local Histories

• Book: Catawba Valley and highlands : Burke County, Western North Carolina (1896) - via the Internet Archive

Maps

• Burke County Maps - via NC Maps Digital Collection

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Burke County for European settlers included:^[2]

• Old Cherokee Path pre-historic
• Jonesboro Road 1769
• Rutherford's War Trace 1776

Military

Newspapers

• Burke county newspapers - a listing of newspapers published in the county & libraries that hold them; via the Library of Congress.
• Burke County residents in the newspaper - name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database.
• North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project - contains full-text papers from 1752-1890s. Search for your Burke County ancestors.

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Births

• Burke County Births - search on the website of the Burke County Register of Deeds
• North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 - search this name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state; via FamilySearch

Marriages

• Burke County Marriages - search on the website of the Burke County Register of Deeds
• North Carolina Marriages, 1762-1979 - search this database of marriages from across the state - images included; via FamilySearch
• Burke County marriages - may be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register & State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website.

Deaths

• Burke County Deaths - search on the website of the Burke County Register of Deeds
• Deaths of Burke County - list of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
• North Carolina Death Certificates, 1906-1930 - search a statewide collection of freely available death certificates - images are included; via FamilySearch

Societies and Libraries 

• Burke County Public Library
• Burke County Genealogical Society

Family History Centers

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

Web Sites

• Burke County NCGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
• Burke County NCGenWeb Archives
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. (FHL Book 973 D27e 2002) WorldCat entry., and William E. Myer, Indian Trails of the Southeast. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the early Colonial Period" (1923). (FHL Book 970.1 M992i) WorldCat entry.