Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
58historic places
—earliest paper
1771formed
76,285pop. 2020
7cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 58 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Pittsboro, Siler City, Bynum.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Chatham County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1790
1800
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
9,221
11,861
12,661
16,242
19,101
23,453
23,912
23,814
24,726
25,392
26,785
33,415
49,329
76,285
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
7 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Chatham Memorial Park
35.73542
-79.41085
Farmville Cemetery
35.56681
-79.21363
Haw River Cemetery
35.76564
-79.07378
Manns Chapel Cemetery
35.8467
-79.11539
Marley Cemetery
35.75235
-79.5428
Oakwood Cemetery
35.73292
-79.47085
Riggsbee Cemetery
35.84246
-79.01962
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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