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Catawba County, North Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
66historic places
—earliest paper
1843formed
160,610pop. 2020
20cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 66 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Hickory, Newton, Blackburn.

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 Catawba titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

36 of 66 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

66 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Anthony, Abraham, FarmBlackburnDistrict1990
Balls Creek CampgroundBandy's CrossroadsDistrict1990
Bandy Farms Historic DistrictBandy's CrossroadsDistrict1990
Bolick Historic DistrictConoverDistrict1990
Bost-Burris HouseNewtonBuilding1990
Bunker Hill Covered BridgeClaremontStructure1970
Catawba County CourthouseNewtonBuilding1979
Catawba Historic DistrictCatawbaDistrict1986
Claremont High School Historic DistrictHickoryDistrict1986
Claremont High School Historic District (Boundary Increase)HickoryDistrict2009
Elliott-Carnegie LibraryHickoryBuilding1985
First Presbyterian ChurchHickoryBuilding1985
Foil-Cline HouseNewtonBuilding1990
Frye, Dr. Glenn R., HouseHickoryBuilding2009
Geitner, Clement, HouseHickoryBuilding1985
George, Lee & Helen, HouseHickoryBuilding2012
Grace Reformed ChurchNewtonBuilding1990
Grace Union Church and CemeteryBlackburnDistrict1990
Harris ArcadeHickoryBuilding2008
Hickory Municipal BuildingHickoryBuilding2000
Hickory Southwest Downtown Historic DistrictHickoryDistrict2005
Highland SchoolHickoryBuilding1990
Hollar Hosiery Mills-Knit Sox Knitting MillsHickoryBuilding2012
Houck's ChapelHickoryBuilding1985
Huffman, George, FarmConoverDistrict1990
Keever-Cansler FarmBlackburnDistrict1990
Kenworth Historic DistrictHickoryDistrict1985
Kenworth Historic District (Boundary Increase)HickoryDistrict2005
Lentz, John A., HouseHickoryBuilding1985
Long, McCorkle and Murray HousesNewtonDistrict1990
Lyerly Full Fashioned MillHickoryBuilding2007
Memorial Reformed ChurchMaidenBuilding1990
Miller-Cansler HouseMaidenBuilding1990
Moore, Alexander, FarmCatawbaDistrict1990
Moretz, John Alfred, HouseHickoryBuilding1985
Munday HouseDenverBuilding1975
Murray's Mill Historic DistrictCatawbaDistrict1979
Neill-Turner-Lester HouseSherrills FordBuilding1990
Newton Downtown Historic DistrictNewtonDistrict2012
North Main Avenue Historic DistrictNewtonDistrict1986
Oakwood Historic DistrictHickoryDistrict1986
Oakwood Historic District (Boundary Increase)HickoryDistrict2019
Perkins HouseNewtonBuilding1974
Piedmont Wagon CompanyHickoryBuilding1985
Powell-Trollinger Lime KilnsCatawbaStructure1974
Propst HouseHickoryBuilding1973
Propst, David F., HouseMaidenBuilding1990
Reinhardt, Franklin D., and Harren-Hood FarmsMaidenDistrict1990
Reinhardt, William Pinckney, HouseMaidenBuilding1990
Ridgeview Public Library, (Former)HickoryBuilding2011
Rock Barn FarmClaremontBuilding1990
Rudisill-Wilson HouseNewtonBuilding1973
Self-Trott-Bickett HouseNewtonBuilding1990
Sharpe-Gentry FarmPropst CrossroadsDistrict1990
Sherrill, Miles Alexander, HouseSherrills FordBuilding1990
Shuford HouseHickoryBuilding1973
Shuford-Hoover HouseBlackburnBuilding1990
St. Paul's Church and CemeteryNewtonBuilding1971
St. Paul's Reformed ChurchStartownBuilding1990
Terrell Historic DistrictTerrellDistrict1986
Warlick-Huffman FarmPropst CrossroadsDistrict1990
Weidner Rock HouseHickoryBuilding1973
Wesley's Chapel Arbor and CemeteryBlackburnDistrict1990
Whisnant Hosiery MillsHickoryBuilding2013
Wilfong-Wilson FarmStartownDistrict1990
Yoder's Mills Historic DistrictHickoryDistrict1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Catawba was formed in 1843 (1843-01-14) from Lincoln.

CATAWBA created from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Catawba County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

161k85k8,8621850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
8,86210,72914,94622,13333,83951,65361,79473,191105,208141,685160,610

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 20 of 20 listed
NameLatLon
Bethel Cemetery35.73381-81.38471
Brookford Cemetery35.6713-81.40024
Brooks Cemetery35.67991-81.05485
Catawba Memorial Park35.69585-81.27369
Central Cemetery35.65818-81.21313
Chapman Cemetery35.61981-81.48442
Claremont City Cemetery35.71614-81.13871
Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery35.67318-80.99952
Eastview Cemetery35.6605-81.21894
Fairview Cemetery35.74443-81.36871
Mount Olive Cemetery35.72846-81.10535
Oakwood Cemetery35.73926-81.34285
Old Robinson Cemetery35.73014-81.33616
Piney Grove Baptist Church Cemetery35.64406-81.11474
Providence Memorial Cemetery35.68491-81.09308
Rhoney Chapel Cemetery35.6199-81.32063
Ridgeview Cemetery35.72096-81.34481
Saint Lukes Cemetery35.78076-81.22696
Smyres Cemetery35.69651-81.07952
Woodlawn Memorial Gardens35.77225-81.30886

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

Historical markers

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