Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
89historic places
—earliest paper
1881formed
324,833pop. 2020
8cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 89 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Durham, Bahama, Chapel Hill.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Durham County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1890
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
18,041
26,233
42,219
80,244
101,639
111,995
152,785
223,314
324,833
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
8 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Aldersgate Memorial Garden and Columbarium
36.08415
-78.94059
Beechwood Cemetery
35.95924
-78.9123
Carrington Cemetery
36.21969
-78.84687
Duke University Chapel Crypt
36.00194
-78.94036
Glenview Memorial Park
35.95737
-78.89112
Maplewood Cemetery
35.9952
-78.92619
Oak Grove Memorial Gardens
36.02029
-78.81386
Woodlawn Memorial Park
35.98928
-78.86422
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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