VANCE COUNTY

Vance was formed in 1881 from Granville, Warren, and Franklin. It was named in honor of Zebulon Baird Vance, a member of Congress, Governor of North Carolina, and a United States Senator. It is in the northeastern section of the State and is bounded by Warren, Franklin, and Granville counties and the state of Virginia The present land area is 253.52 square miles. The population from the 2010 Census was 45,422. Of that population, 20,058 were white, 22,645 were black or African American, 147 were American Indian, 202 were Asian, 7 were Pacific Islander and 1,754 were of a different race. Another 609 were reported to be of two or more races and 3,051 were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The act directed the county commissioners to select a site in Henderson for the erection of the courthouse. Henderson is the county seat.

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Parts of Vance County are in the Roanoke River Basin and parts are in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin. It is in the Piedmont region of the state.

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 and NC State Archives)

NC LIVE resources

NC Natural Heritage Program database

WorldCat (Searches numerous library catalogs)