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Chatham County
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county in North Carolina, United States
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Within Vinony's link graph, Chatham County is referenced by 796 other articles, and connects out to Siler City, Raleigh and African Americans.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NC.
Vinony files it under 1771 establishments in North Carolina, Chatham County, North Carolina and North Carolina counties.
Its subject is documented across 48 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- Population
- 76285
- Area
- 1836
- 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
- inception
- 1771-01-01
- native label
- Chatham County
- water as percent of area
- 3.9
- per capita income
- 45036
Sources (10)
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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.