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Chatham County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Seat
- Pittsboro
- Largest community
- Siler City
- Total
- 708.93 sq mi (1,836.1 km )
- Land
- 681.68 sq mi (1,765.5 km )
- Water
- 27.25 sq mi (70.6 km ) 3.84%
- Estimate 2025
- 85,111
- Density
- 111.91/sq mi (43.21/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 4th , 9th
- Website
- www .chathamcountync .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Carolina
- Contains
- Siler City
- Capital
- Pittsboro
- Population
- 76285
- Area
- 1836
- Shares border with
- Randolph County
- Official website
- www.chathamcountync.gov
- Image
- Old Chatham County Courthouse (April 2023) 4.jpg
- Households
- 29904
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- Commons category
- Chatham County, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Chatham County, North Carolina
- inception
- 1771-01-01
- native label
- Chatham County
- different from
- Chatham County
- water as percent of area
- 3.9
- per capita income
- 45036
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Chatham County, North Carolina
- website account on
- Nextdoor
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Encyclopedic overview
Chatham County ( locally /ˈtʃætəm/ CHAT-əm) is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is also the location of the geographic center of North Carolina, northwest of Sanford. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,285. Its county seat is Pittsboro.
Chatham County is part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chatham County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.