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Cleveland County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Benjamin Cleveland
- Seat
- Shelby
- Largest community
- Shelby
- Total
- 468.18 sq mi (1,212.6 km )
- Land
- 464.25 sq mi (1,202.4 km )
- Water
- 3.93 sq mi (10.2 km ) 0.84%
- Estimate 2025
- 103,325
- Density
- 214.37/sq mi (82.767/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 14th
- Website
- www .clevelandcounty .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Carolina
- Contains
- Kingstown
- Capital
- Shelby
- Population
- 99519
- Area
- 1214
- Shares border with
- Rutherford County
- Official website
- www.clevelandcounty.com
- Image
- Old Cleveland County Courthouse 2009.JPG
- Households
- 36089
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- Commons category
- Cleveland County, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Cleveland County, North Carolina
- inception
- 1841-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Cleveland County, North Carolina
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Cleveland County, North Carolina
- different from
- Cleveland County
- water as percent of area
- 0.9
- native label
- Cleveland County
- per capita income
- 23061
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Encyclopedic overview
Cleveland County is a county located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the western Piedmont, on the southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,519. Its county seat is Shelby. Cleveland County comprises the Shelby-Kings Mountain, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC Combined Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cleveland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.