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CLEVELAND COUNTY

County History: Formed in 1841 from Rutherford and Lincoln counties.  Named for Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, one of the commanding officers at the Battle of Kings mountain during the Revolutionary War.


Population:
(U.S. Census)
1900 25,078
1920 34,272
1940 58,055
1960 66,048
1980 83,435
2000 96,287
Description:
Bibliography:

Speculation Lands Collection (1752-1930) [electronic resource] : WEB ACCESS, UNCA, UNCA WEB ACCESS, ASU, ASU WEB ACCESS, , WCU, WCU WEB ACCESS,  

Dear companion by Jean Tisdale : , , ASU   c1997
Cleveland County, North Carolina estate records, 1795-1840, [compiled by] Mrs. Robert T. Allen : , , ASU   c1997
Financial statement audit report of Cleveland County Partner [microform] / [Office of the State Auditor] : , ASU   1996
Hometown memories--Cleveland County tales [senior editor, R.T. Lasley ; design and graphic arts editor : , , ASU   c1996
Cleveland County Communities in Schools, Inc., Shelby, North [microform] : [Office of the State Auditor] : , ASU   1995
Cleveland County, North Carolina Superior Court minutes transcribed by Ann Jones Thompson : , , ASU   1995-
Cleaveland County North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter : , , ASU   1995-
Sketches of western North Carolina, historical and biographi by C.L. Hunter : , , ASU   1995
Cleveland County Clerk of Superior Court, Shelby, North Caro [microform] / [Office of the State Auditor] : , ASU   1994
Flood insurance study : Cleveland County, North Carolina, un : , , WCU   1991
Labor market newsletter. Shelby, North Carolina / [Employment Security Commission] : , , , ASU, WCU   1990
Cleveland County water supply survey North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community : , , WCU   1989
North Carolina community profile : Kings Mountain, Cleveland [microform.] : , , ASU, UNCA   1988-
North Carolina community profile : Shelby, Cleveland County : , UNCA   1988-
The Heritage of Cleveland County, 1982- : , , ASU   c1982-
Cleveland County, North Carolina will abstracts, 1841-1910 compiled by Grace Turner and Miles S. Philbeck, Jr : , , ASU   c1981
Computer indexed marriage records ... North Carolina Nicholas Russell Murray : , , ASU   1981-
Champion map of Shelby, Cleveland Co., and Kings Mountain, N Gary W. Cauble, chief cartographer : , , ASU   c1980
Second Broad River Watershed, Rutherford, McDowell, and Clev Jesse L. Hicks : , , ASU   1975
Cleveland County, N.C. 1974 roads drawn by G.P. Stout : , , ASU   c1974
Shelby and vicinity : Cleveland County, North Carolina prepared by the North Carolina State Highway Commission Plan : , , ASU   1972
Cleveland County, North Carolina marriages, 1851-1868. Compiled and published by S. Arnold Ramey : , , ASU   1971
Sketches of western North Carolina, historical and biographi By C. L. Hunter. With an added index compiled by the Regiona : , , , , ASU, UNCA, WCU   1970
A critical study of Negro education in Cleveland County, Nor by Clementine R. Foster : , , ASU   1958
North Carolina, Lincolnton quadrangle R.B. Marshall, chief geographer ; Frank Sutton, geographer i : , , ASU   1909
Financial related audit report of Cleveland County Clerk of [microfiche] / [Office of the State Auditor] : , ASU    
County development information for Cleveland County : , , , , , , , , , ASU, UNCA, WCU