Warren County
Also known as Warren County, North Carolina, Warren County, NC
county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Joseph Warren
- Seat
- Warrenton
- Largest community
- Warrenton
- Total
- 444.30 sq mi (1,150.7 km )
- Land
- 429.39 sq mi (1,112.1 km )
- Water
- 14.91 sq mi (38.6 km ) 3.36%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,898
- Density
- 43.415/sq mi (16.763/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
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Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a landfill and birthplace of the environmental justice movement. As of the 2020 census, its population was 18,642. Its county seat is Warrenton. It was a center of tobacco and cotton plantations, education, and later textile mills.
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