BLADEN COUNTY

Related entry: Bladen County in the 1700s.

Brief Overview

Bladen County is in the southeastern section of the State and is bounded by Sampson, Pender, Columbus, Robeson and Cumberland counties. The present land area is 874.94 square miles. The population from the 2010 Census was 35,190. Of that population, 19,806 were white, 12,268 were black or African American, 749 were American Indian, 70 were Asian, 5 were Pacific Islander and 1,774 were of a different race. Another 518 were reported to be of two or more races and 2,502 were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The county seat was first called Bladen Court House. Elizabethtown, established in 1773, is the county seat.

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Parts of Bladen County are in the Cape Fear River Basin and parts are in the Lumber River Basin. It is in the Coastal Plain region.

References:

"American Factfinder." 2011. U. S. Census Bureau. Online at http://factfinder2.census.gov/. Accessed 3/3/2011.

Corbitt, David L. 2000. The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943. Sixth printing. Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History.

Powell, William Stevens, and Michael R. Hill. 2010. The North Carolina gazetteer: a dictionary of Tar Heel places and their history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Additional resources:

North Carolina Digital Collections. (Government & Heritage Library & NC State Archives)

NC LIVE resources

NC Natural Heritage Program database

WorldCat (Searches numerous library catalogs)