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Lee County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Founded
- April 1, 1908
- Named after
- Robert E. Lee
- Seat
- Sanford
- Largest community
- Sanford
- Total
- 259.20 sq mi (671.3 km )
- Land
- 255.06 sq mi (660.6 km )
- Water
- 4.14 sq mi (10.7 km ) 1.60%
- Estimate 2025
- 70,258
- Density
- 281.2/sq mi (108.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 27330, 27332
- Area code
- 919, 984
- Congressional district
- 13th
- Website
- www .leecountync .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Robert E. Lee
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Carolina
- Contains
- Sanford
- Capital
- Sanford
- Population
- 63285
- Area
- 672
- Shares border with
- Moore County
- Official website
- www.leecountync.gov
- Image
- Lee County Courthouse in the Spring.JPG
- Households
- 22290
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- Commons category
- Lee County, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Lee County, North Carolina
- inception
- 1907-00-00
- different from
- Lee County
- water as percent of area
- 1.6
- native label
- Lee County
- social media followers
- 1254
- per capita income
- 25502
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Encyclopedic overview
Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,285. The county seat is Sanford.
Lee County comprises the Sanford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lee County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.