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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

Church

Court

Education

Book: The North Carolina School for the Deaf at Morganton, 1894-1944 (1945) - free online

Land

Local Histories

Maps

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

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Yearbooks

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

Societies and Libraries 

Web Sites

• Burke County NCGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
• 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.