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Bladen County, North Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
14historic places
—earliest paper
1734formed
29,606pop. 2020
73cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Elizabethtown, Clarkton, White Oak.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bladen titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bladen County Training SchoolElizabethtownBuilding2018
Brown Marsh Presbyterian ChurchClarktonBuilding1975
Carver's Creek Methodist ChurchCouncilBuilding2008
Clark, John Hector, HouseClarktonBuilding1987
Clarkton DepotClarktonBuilding1986
DesseretteWhite OakDistrict1987
Gilmore-Patterson FarmSt. Paul'sBuilding1999
Harmony HallWhite OakBuilding1972
Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church and CemeteryElizabethtownBuilding1987
Oakland PlantationCarversBuilding1972
Purdie House and Purdie Methodist ChurchTar HeelBuilding1977
South River Presbyterian ChurchGarlandBuilding1996
Trinity Methodist ChurchElizabethtownDistrict1989
Walnut GroveTar HeelDistrict1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bladen was formed in 1734 (1734-12-31) from New Hanover Precinct.

[1734] Bladen Precinct (now BLADEN) created from New Hanover Precinct (now NEW HANOVER); western boundary limit was indefinite.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bladen County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

35k20k5,084179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,0847,0287,2768,02211,99516,15817,67719,76127,15629,70328,88130,49132,27829,606

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Moores Creek National BattlefieldPark unit42.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

73 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 73 of 73 listed
NameLatLon
Allen Cemetery34.65522-78.76345
Allen Cemetery34.66905-78.75641
Anders Cemetery34.59895-78.3043
Atkinson Cemetery34.59005-78.48451
Barnhill Cemetery34.59771-78.31814
Beatty Cemetery34.54338-78.41291
Beatty Cemetery34.57979-78.28255
Benson Cemetery34.61247-78.6472
Bladen Memorial Gardens34.57745-78.66166
Bladenboro Cemetery34.53127-78.79993
Blank Cemetery34.41355-78.51243
Boone Cemetery34.79443-78.87344
Boone Cemetery34.79433-78.87336
Bryan Cemetery34.67572-78.78252
Bryant Cemetery34.596-78.76945
Buie Cemetery34.40589-78.51217
Burney Cemetery34.69766-78.77559
Carroll Cemetery34.65489-78.4925
Colvin Cemetery34.45905-78.18597
Davis Cemetery34.59674-78.5769
Dyson Cemetery34.60412-78.31208
Dyson Cemetery34.65378-78.47056
Edwards Cemetery34.62367-78.80692
Ellis Cemetery34.80683-78.7553
Faulk Cemetery34.57436-78.8343
Graham Chapel Cemetery34.39071-78.31213
Grimes Cemetery34.72127-78.75418
Hester Cemetery34.57784-78.79263
Hines Cemetery34.54016-78.76168
Holmes Hill Cemetery34.42196-78.28129
Holy Cross Cemetery34.40773-78.50914
Hursey Cemetery34.67031-78.79523
Johnson Cemetery34.54157-78.43064
Johnson Cemetery34.59917-78.64919
Kelley Cemetery34.46982-78.19323
Kelly Cemetery34.4904-78.86142
Lee Cemetery34.60057-78.51116
Lewis Cemetery34.52513-78.79373
Lewis Cemetery34.61715-78.83163
Lewis Cemetery34.49792-78.84499
Lucas Cemetery34.51873-78.4125
Marshall Cemetery34.54429-78.42547
Marshburn Cemeteries34.68628-78.48834
McCall Cemetery34.50611-78.58536
McGill Cemetery34.6032-78.64255
McKoy Cemetery34.54949-78.51238
Mears Cemetery34.59504-78.57446
Melvin Cemetery34.61755-78.49335
Melvin Cemetery34.62989-78.49
Mount Olive Cemeteries34.59768-78.58411
Nance Cemetery34.58057-78.82807
New Hope Cemetery34.52873-78.51031
New Pait Cemetery34.62776-78.76531
Norris Cemetery34.66378-78.45139
Old Bethel Cemetery34.46456-78.57168
Old Pait Cemetery34.62961-78.76418
Pine Crest Cemetery34.53197-78.80001
Pone Cemetery34.58512-78.64163
Rising Cemetery34.57765-78.65846
Roanoke Cemetery34.5284-78.75288
Robinson Cemetery34.58477-78.38383
Salem Cemetery34.50888-78.34513
Sand Hill Cemetery34.73461-78.4675
Singletary Cemetery34.56374-78.85601
Smith Cemeteries34.62072-78.49528
Smith Cemetery34.56048-78.43902
Smith Memorial Gardens Cemetery34.70155-78.44889
Sutton Cemetery34.591-78.51139
Sutton Cemetery34.68989-78.3675
Tyson Cemetery34.83425-78.89358
Tyson Cemetery34.83405-78.89363
Warson Cemetery34.53042-78.51517
Wright Cemetery34.52267-78.49046

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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