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Cleveland County, North Carolina
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Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1841
County Seat	Shelby
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

Cleveland County Courthouse
11 East Marion St
P O Box 1210
Shelby, North Carolina 28150
Phone: 704-484-4834

Register of Deeds has birth and death records from 1914
Marriage records from 1851 and land records from 1841
Clerk Superior Court has divorce records  from 1921
Probate records from 1843 & Circuit records from 1914^[1]

Cleveland county was formed from Rutherford and Lincoln 11 Jan 1841

History

Cleaveland was originally used but the present spelling was adopted in 1887.

Parent County

1841--Cleveland County was created 11 January 1841 from Lincoln and Rutherford Counties. County seat: Shelby ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Variant Spellings

• Cleaveland

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Burke
• Catawba
• Cherokee County, South Carolina
• Gaston
• Lincoln
• Rutherford
• York County, South Carolina

Resources

Cemeteries

Census

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

Church

Court

Education

• Cleveland Community College Yearbooks: 1969-1991

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Civil War

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

Newspapers

Probate

• 1841-1868, 1910-1942 - Will Books 1, 4, and 5 (1841-1868, 1910-1942) have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.

Taxation

Vital Records

Deaths

• Cleveland County Obituaries - misc. obits; from GenealogyBuff.com

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers 

Web Sites

• USGenWeb Project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Cleveland County NCGenWeb
• USGenWeb Archives-Cleveland County, NC

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Cleveland County, North Carolina. Page 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).