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Union County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Compromise name that both local Democrats and Whigs agreed on
- Seat
- Monroe
- Largest community
- Indian Trail
- Total
- 639.65 sq mi (1,656.7 km )
- Land
- 632.74 sq mi (1,638.8 km )
- Water
- 6.91 sq mi (17.9 km ) 1.08%
- Estimate 2025
- 267,674
- Density
- 376.56/sq mi (145.39/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 8th
- Website
- www .unioncountync .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- merger
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Carolina
- Contains
- Monroe
- Capital
- Monroe
- Population
- 238267
- Area
- 1657
- Shares border with
- Mecklenburg County
- Official website
- www.co.union.nc.us
- Image
- Union County Courthouse, Monroe, NC September 2017.jpg
- Households
- 77791
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- topic's main category
- Category:Union County, North Carolina
- Commons category
- Union County, North Carolina
- inception
- 1842-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Union County, North Carolina
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Union County, North Carolina
- different from
- Union Parish
- water as percent of area
- 1.3
- native label
- Union County
- social media followers
- 4722
- per capita income
- 37667
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Encyclopedic overview
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 238,267. Its county seat is Monroe. Union County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Union County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.