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Warren County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Joseph Warren
- Seat
- Warrenton
- Largest community
- Warrenton
- Total
- 444.30 sq mi (1,150.7 km )
- Land
- 429.39 sq mi (1,112.1 km )
- Water
- 14.91 sq mi (38.6 km ) 3.36%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,898
- Density
- 43.415/sq mi (16.763/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .warrencountync .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Joseph Warren
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Carolina
- Contains
- Warrenton
- Capital
- Warrenton
- Population
- 18642
- Area
- 444
- Shares border with
- Mecklenburg County
- Official website
- www.warrencountync.com
- Image
- Warrenton, North Carolina (6281513093).jpg
- Households
- 8122
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Warren County, North Carolina
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Warren County, North Carolina
- Commons category
- Warren County, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Warren County, North Carolina
- inception
- 1779-01-01
- different from
- Warren County
- water as percent of area
- 3.4
- native label
- Warren County
- per capita income
- 25340
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Encyclopedic overview
Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a landfill and birthplace of the environmental justice movement. As of the 2020 census, its population was 18,642. Its county seat is Warrenton. It was a center of tobacco and cotton plantations, education, and later textile mills.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warren County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.