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Greene County, North Carolina

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12historic places

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1792formed

20,451pop. 2020

3cemeteries

2CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Snow Hill, Ormondsville, Jason.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Best, Benjamin W., House	Jason	Building	2006
Carr, Titus W., House	Walstonburg	District	1987
Coward, Edward R. and Sallie Ann, House	Ormondsville	Building	2002
Greene County Courthouse	Snow Hill	Building	1979
Hardee House	Ormondsville	Building	2014
Neoheroka Fort Site	Snow Hill	Site	2009
Snow Hill Colored High School	Snow Hill	Building	2003
Snow Hill Historic District	Snow Hill	District	2000
Snow Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Snow Hill	District	2009
Speight-Bynum House	Walstonsburg	Building	1992
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church	Snow Hill	Building	1979
Zachariah School	Wooten's Crossroads	Building	2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Greene was formed in 1792 (1792-01-19) from Dobbs.

GLASGOW (now GREENE) created from DOBBS (extinct). DOBBS eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,893	4,218	4,533	6,595	7,925	10,037	12,038	16,212	18,548	18,024	16,741	16,117	18,974	20,451

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

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Artis Cemetery	35.43691	-77.49594
Rainbow Cemetery	35.41016	-77.62441
Snow Hill Cemetery	35.43934	-77.65977

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

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Wyse Fork	4,971	32.2 km	NC017
Kinston	2,385	32.5 km	NC007

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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