Surry County, North Carolina

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Contents 1 Surry County 1.1 Timeline 1.2 Categories 1.3 Stickers 2 Geography 2.1 Maps 2.2 Adjacent North Carolina Counties 3 Resources

Surry County

where are records found

a bit of history (especially of boundary changes, source of the county's name)

county seat/select cities, towns, communities

where to find additional info - e.g., formation maps or wikipedia

wikipedia page, formation map e.g.,

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Timeline

1771: Surry County was formed on 1 April 1771 from the western portion of Rowan County, North Carolina, Province of North Carolina. It technically had no western border when founded.^[3]

While Surry County borders have had multiple small shifts over time, the major changes were:

• 1778: Surry lost about half of its western territory with the creation of Wilkes County on 15 February 1778 (N.C. Recs., ch. 32, secs. 1-2/24:142-144)
• 1851: Surry lost about half of its remaining southern territory with the creation of Yadkin County on 1 May 1851 (N.C. Sess. Laws 1850-1851, ch. 40, sec. 1/p. 100, and ch. 41, secs. 27, 29-30/pp. 101-109; N.C. Sess. Laws 1852-1853, ch. 22, secs. 2-3/pp. 71-72)

The loss of territory to Wilkes County, however, had major repercussions to areas that were once part of Surry County. All of today's Wilkes County, Ashe County, Alleghany County, and Watauga County in North Carolina were once part of Surry County - along with portions of eastern Tennessee and northwestern North Carolina counties.^[3]

Categories

The location category to add to someone's profile depends on when the person lived on the land that was once Surry County:

• Category: Surry County, North Carolina from xx to xx.^[2]

Surry County exists today as one of North Carolina's 31 counties in Appalachia.^[4]

Stickers

{{Appalachian Roots}}

{{Appalachian Roots|state=North Carolina}}

The state parameter is used to add text to the sticker, but it does not add a category (this sticker is for descendants of Appalachians; project categories are for Appalachians). See Template: Appalachian Roots for additional examples.

{{Appalachia Sticker}}

{{Appalachia Sticker|born|state=North Carolina}}

This sticker has born and lived/lives in options. The state parameter will add text to the sticker. It will also add the corresponding Appalachians category (there are 13 project categories for "people profiles" - see Category: Appalachians). You can add additional Appalachians categories manually (e.g., [[Category: Virginia Appalachians]]). The Appalachians categories are for people profiles only and should only be added to profiles for Appalachians who lived there when it was that state (in other words, do not add Category: West Virginia Appalachians to someone's profile if they died before 1 June 1863). Generally, the earliest North Carolina settlers who could have been in land that is today Appalachia would have been in Anson County (created in 1750). See the project's North Carolina Workspace for additional information.

See Template: Appalachia Sticker for details about "born in" and "lived in" (and "lives in") options.

{{North Carolina Sticker|text=was a resident of Surry County.}}

See Template: North Carolina Sticker for details of parameters & use.

Geography

Maps

• North Carolina County Formation Maps
• Maps of North Carolina
• Historical Atlases (North Carolina, Tennessee)
• Surry County, North Carolina on Google Maps
• Rivers of Surry County, North Carolina in Wikipedia

Adjacent North Carolina Counties

Northwest Grayson County, Virginia		North Carroll County, Virginia	Northeast Patrick County, Virginia
West Alleghany County, North Carolina		Surry County North Carolina		East Stokes County, North Carolina
Southwest Wilkes County, North Carolina		South Yadkin County, North Carolina	Southeast Forsyth County, North Carolina

Resources

• Links from Category:Surry County, North Carolina
• Wikipedia: Surry County, North Carolina
• "History of Surry County, or, Annals of northwest North Carolina" by J.G. Hollingsworth, published 1935 by W. H. Fisher Co, Greensboro, NC - 280 pages. Find it at a library near you or read it online (Ancestry subscription required).

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Surry County, North Carolina (accessed 24 July 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} North Carolina County Formation Maps (accessed 24 July 2022).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, The Newberry Library, North Carolina, (N.C. Recs., ch. 42, secs. 1-2/23:844-846) - https://digital.newberry.org/ahcb/documents/NC_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm
4. ↑ See WikiTree's Workspace for Appalachia Project - North Carolina, a project page of the Appalachia Project. See also the North Carolina table on the project's Space: Counties of Appalachia page.